Cross in Farrangarret

This cross-base is named as Cloch Daha, attributed to Daghda, King of the Tuatha Dé Dannan, and is described as lying on the roadside opposite the new Church of Ireland church in Ardmore, where it may have been a termon cross at the N edge of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WA040-008023-) around the churches of Ardmore. It is described as "two feet by eighteen inches" and to have a basin. It was the centre of a courtship ritual on Ash Wednesdays (FitzGerald, 1856-7, 43-4). It is now located c. 200m to the NW (WA040-017----), and has a different mythology (Power 1932c, 18; Power 1952, 83) associated with dying cloth. (Westropp 1903, 375) FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 287-91. Power, Rev. P. (1932c) Ardmore; its founder and early Christian monuments. Catholic Truth Society. Dublin Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press. Westropp, T. J. (1903) Notes on the antiquities of Ardmore. JRSAI, 33, 353-80. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 October, 2011

The cross-base in Farrangarret, known as Cloch Daha, was likely built during the early medieval period and may be associated with the termon boundary of the nearby Ardmore Church of Ireland site. It is attributed to the Daghda, a deity of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and reflects a fusion of early Christian and pre-Christian traditions.