What is recorded here
Moone High Cross stands fifty-four centimetres taller than most Irish crosses, its granite shaft carved with Daniel in the lion’s pit and a spiral sun that predates Christianity. Buried for centuries beside the church, it re-emerged in 1835 and 1893, each fragment returning like a forgotten limb remembered. The apostles still watch from its base, unchanged since the day the carving knife stopped moving.
The 'East' cross in a graveyard (KD036-031010-), NE of the church (KD036-031001-). A granite base deeply buried in the ground. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 336)
(The granite base of the East Cross lies to the NE of the church, deeply embedded in the earth (top dims. 0.72m x 0.48m). It has a rectangular mortice (dims. 0.3m x 0.22m; D. 0.14m)).
Date of upload: 5 September 2016
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