What is recorded here

Cruach na Cara is an island church in County Galway where a lost cross once stood beside the burial platform. A rectangular limestone fragment still rests on the leacht, and a shallow socket marks the place where its shaft entered the earth. The cross is gone, but its shadow remains in the shape of the hole and the broken stone.

Associated with the ecclesiastical remains at the SE end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island and located within the enclosure (GA076-020014-) c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA076-020001-). Kinehan (1869, 90-91) recorded ‘a rectangular piece of limestone carved on both sides’ on the leacht (GA076-020010-) and noted that it may have been ‘part of the shaft of a cross’. He also noted that ‘the socket of the shaft of a cross’ at the side of the leacht ‘fits this piece.’ A rectangular limestone fragment (L 0.42m; Wth 0.32m; T 0.1m) was noted on the leacht but it was undecorated (see also GA076-020024- and GA076-020025-). The rectangular limestone socket (L 0.4m; Wth 0.14-0.19m) is visible on the ground to the SE of the cross-slab (GA076-020009-). (Bigger 1896, 109) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 June 2018

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