What is recorded here

Yes. An ordinary stone marker in a rural graveyard, yet it carries a crucifixion scene and a carving of the Blessed Virgin. That is why it is worth seeing. The story about it is that it was thought lost, then found again during a local survey. The change is not that the cross became magical. The change is that people stopped treating the place as complete and unknown. They looked, remembered the missing part, and brought it back into the world.

In a graveyard (KD020-009006-). A cross with a crucifixion scene first noted by Hendrick-Aylmer (1902, 381) and presumed missing (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 432) was subsequently discovered by the Naas Local History Group when undertaking a survey of the graveyard. According to McCabe (2000, 184-198), the top section of a cross of unusual fossiliferous stone, showing on one side, a crucifixion figure and, on the other, a carving of the Blessed Virgin, was found. It may date to the late-14/15th century. (McCabe 2008, 159-60) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

The cross in Rathmore West, located in a graveyard, was likely built in the 18th or 19th century and features a crucifixion scene; its discovery by the Naas Local History Group revived awareness of its historical and religious significance.

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