Cross in Inchcleraun, County Longford

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What is recorded here

Situated on SSE edge of Inchcleraun monastic cashel (LF021-048----) beside Romanesque decorated jamb-stones and a bullaun stone, on a possible cobbled pathway leading from the monastery to a possible church (LF021-048007-) located 55m to WSW. Unfinished roughly dressed pyramidal-shaped cross base lying on the surface of the ground beside several other worked stones of unknown antiquity.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF021-048020

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