What is recorded here

Sir Christopher Plunkett and Katherine Preston raised the cross beside Rathmore church in 1519, marking their piety and power. Time has broken the shaft into fragments, yet the base still carries their Latin name and the lower stone holds three small figures in niches. What remains is enough to show that the place was never empty, never forgotten, and never merely stone.

Outside the N wall of Rathmore church (ME024-017001-) is a cross that was erected at the behest of Sir Christopher Plunkett and his wife, Katherine Preston, in 1519. It consists of the base (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; H 0.33m) with a Latin inscription and part of the lower shaft (dims 0.22m x 0.15m; H 0.44m) with three figures in niches, and part of the upper shaft (dims 0.32m x 0.2m; H 0.32m) with raised mouldings that might be from another cross (King 1984, 101-02). (FitzGerald 1908, 437-8; Leask 1933, 164) See attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 June, 2014

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