What is recorded here

One churchyard cross in County Cavan still stands with a crucifixion, a cherub, and the letters IHS carved into sandstone. Its broken shaft fragments carry a bishop, a man with raised arms, and an inscription naming Pat Garga and the year 1686. What is clear is that the cross was made, witnessed, broken, and set into cement beside the nave wall. What is lost is the life of the person who stood before it, prayed to it, or watched it fall.

The heads of two churchyard crosses with disc-heads and fragments probably belonging to one of them, a Latin churchyard cross with an inscription, and a stone with an inscription are set in cement just S of the N nave wall. This sandstone solid-ring cross (H 0.54m; span 0.39m; T 0.14m) with stubby arms has a pyramid on top. A crucifixion with a cherub above is depicted on one side, and IHS is carved on the ends of the arms. The reverse has a recessed cross in a circle with a cherub above. The letter A is inscribed over the cherub and below the cross are the letters: AUIL. Two fragments from cross shafts are likely to have been part of this cross. One piece (dims 0.25m x 0.14m; H 0.43m) has a carving of a bishop on one side and a man with raised arms on the other. A second stone (dims 0.26m x 0.15m; H 0.25m) has the upper part of a person on one side with the inscription: PAT / GARGA / N MAD / E THIS / CROSS / E ANNO / D 1686 on one side and the letters: N / M / GA on another. Se the attached views The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 8 August 2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 19 March 2020

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