What is recorded here

Altar is a broken limestone cross in a Galway field, local memory claiming a priest still said mass at its stump after the famine. The field has no wall, no road marker and no warning, only grass pressing the stone and sky opening above the fracture. A person could stand before it with bread, water and attention, making the missing shaft complete for the duration of the ceremony.

In the corner of a field in flat pastureland. The stump of this partially collapsed and overgrown drystone limestone cross-shaft (D 0.95m; H >0.62m) stands on a pedestal (H 0.2m) and a two-tiered base (Wth 1.3m; max. H 0.7m). The edges of the shaft are chamfered. According to local information, it was used by a local priest for mass after the famine. On the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this feature may have been incorrectly named 'Holy Well' (see GA113-023001-). (McCaffrey 1952, 268, no. 4) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 November 2022

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