What is recorded here

Half-buried in a farmer's stone mound west of the road to Ross, the severed head of a seventeenth-century ring cross still points upward while its shaft lies forgotten beneath grass. Local tradition claims two ill-fated lovers sleep at its base, a story Anne Ahern Getty later carried into print, yet the stone itself bears no name, no date, and no joint to prove how it once stood united.

Harbison (1997, 171-6) identified a fragment of a high cross built into the stonework of the church and subsequently removed to OPW headquarters in 1994 (ME019-112). The interlace panel has been compared with that on crosses at Clonmacnoise and Kells suggesting a date of c. 950-1000 (Seaver, M. & Brady, C. 2011). Compiled by Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 29 March 2012

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