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Cross in Raheenlusk

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Located on a broad, low hill. A latin cross (H 1.24m; Wth of arms 0.4m), now in the County Wexford Museum, Enniscorthy (WX020-031011-), was situated on the W side of a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Killannaduff until it was moved to the musem sometime after 1948. It has an incised circle with a cross in relief at the crux and a Latin cross in relief above it on one face. The other face has an inscribed circle with a marigold at the crux and there are parallel incised lines running down the stem. The cross (WX022-009----) was c. 200m to the ESE. (Ranson 1945, 53; 1948, 101) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996).
Located on a broad, low hill. A latin cross (H 1.24m; Wth of arms 0.4m), now in the County Wexford Museum, Enniscorthy (WX020-031011-), was situated on the W side of a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Killannaduff until it was moved to the musem sometime after 1948. It has an incised circle with a cross in relief at the crux and a Latin cross in relief above it on one face. The other face has an…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX022-008

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Michael Dibb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Bruce Marlin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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