Furness - Possible Early Medieval Cross-Slab3D ModelNoAI
Recorded monument (KD019-024004-)
This possible early medieval grave slab of granite was discovered in the churchyard of Furness Church in 1968. It had been reused as a grave marker and buried in a vertical orientation with only its upper section left exposed. Furness Church is a medieval parish church dating from c.1200 located in the townland of Forenaghts Great, Naas, Co. Kildare. The slab is described in the Record of Monuments and Places as “A gently tapering granite slab (dims. L 1.62m; Wth 0.37-0.53m; T 0.22m) carries a broad shaft and transom of a cross carved in low relief, with the head of the cross formed by a circular disc from which an incised line runs down the centre of the shaft.”
If early medieval in date, it would be the only evidence for an early medieval ecclesiastical site at Forenaughts - a townland divided in two (Great and Little) during the middle ages. Both townlands had a small church located just 0.5 Km apart.
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