Cross in Ballycallan, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

Indicated in Curragh townland on the revised ed. of the OS 6-inch map and recorded as KK022-008----. This ‘small ancient cross' was identified in the 1850s and was described as being, 'evidently very old; the rubble work upon which its base is placed is modern, having been built by the country people, that by thus raising the cross it would look more important, as it is very small, and is called in Irish, 'Crois-gar,' or the little cross. The Rev. James Graves suggests that it may originally have been the gable cross of Ballycallan [medieval] church [KK018-072001-]' (Anon. 1854-5, 343-4). The church and graveyard (KK018-072002-) lie c. 1km NW of the cross.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK018-072003

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