. A short history of sepulchral cross-slabs : with reference to other emblems found thereon ; with notes and illustrations of examples found in the British Isles . t Christian prince of Thomond. St. Brecan must have died about the beginning of the sixth century. When his tomb was opened (about the year 1805) to allow the burial of _ a Roman Catholic f^lHIllllllf I llllfl IllllTllk. astic of Galway, the stone was broken that lay, about 6 ft. from the surface, in an enclosure known as St. Brecans tomb. After St. Brecans slab we have that of Conaing ( 822) found at Clonmacnoise ; Sui
. A short history of sepulchral cross-slabs : with reference to other emblems found thereon ; with notes and illustrations of examples found in the British Isles . t Christian prince of Thomond. St. Brecan must have died about the beginning of the sixth century. When his tomb was opened (about the year 1805) to allow the burial of _ a Roman Catholic f^lHIllllllf I llllfl IllllTllk. astic of Galway, the stone was broken that lay, about 6 ft. from the surface, in an enclosure known as St. Brecans tomb. After St. Brecans slab we have that of Conaing ( 822) found at Clonmacnoise ; Suibine mac Maelhumai ( 891); Blaimac ( 896), buried at Glendalough; Aedh, son of Aicide, King of Jeffia, killed by the Danes of Dublin and ^^^^^ °^ ^^^ ^^^^^ Romans, in THE Church of St. Brecan, Leinster in 594 ; Aigidin ^^^ ^ ^^^ Ireland.( 955); Maelfinnia ( 992), buried at Clonmacnoise;and Flannchadd ( 1003) also buried at with these early stones in Ireland aremany found in various parts of England. One was dugup in 1877 ^t Monkwearmouth Church, Durham, thatshowed on its surface a cross and on its sides a Latin. 4 ANCIENT SEPULCHRAL CROSS-SLABS. inscription. The form of the cross was that of a veryearly Anglo-Saxon type, so that doubtless the slab datesfrom the seventh or eighth century. Before passing from these ancient specimens, mentionshould be made of the small stones known as pillow-stones,
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