What is recorded here

Arodstown church in County Meath kept a buried latin cross beside its south doorway, but the stone reappeared at St Mary’s in Moynalvy around 1960. It is small, no taller than a kitchen table, with flaring ends and a later 19th century date. Whether it marked a grave, a boundary or a forgotten vow is no longer certain. What is certain is that it was hidden, remembered, moved and set out again for others to see.

The head of a latin cross (H 0.58m; span 0.66m; T 0.14m) with slightly flaring terminals had been buried just outside the S doorway of Arodstown church (ME043-015----), but it was moved from the graveyard c. 1960 and is now outside the Roman Catholic church of St Mary’s at Moynalvy (ME043-028----), c. 1.6km to the S (Moore 1975, 46-7). It can be dated to the later 19th century (King 1984, 104-05). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 March, 2015

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