Cross in Laughanstown

O'Reilly (1901, 250) records that 'On a small hillock, immediately beside the cross [DU026-023004-], are two large granite boulders, in each of which a deep, straight-sided, rectangular mortice, that evidently was made to receive a cross-shaft, has been sunk. Assuming that one of these originally served as the plinth of the existing western cross, a search in the vicinity would, probably, unearth the fragments of a third free-standing cross.' At some point in the 20th century the western cross (DU026-23004-) was set in one of the boulders. To date no fragments of a third cross have come to light (Corlett 2014, 100-101). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015