What is recorded here

One missing half of a cross still stands in the Tullaherin graveyard, its sandstone base tapering like a forgotten promise beside the medieval church. The round tower and ogham stones keep company with it, suggesting a place where Christian prayer and older Irish memory shared the same ground. People may have gathered there to mark death, honour ancestors or simply watch the sky change above Kilkenny.

In the graveyard (KK024-062002-) of Tullaherin, immediately S of the S wall of the medieval church (KK024-062001-), outside the E end of the nave. Associated with church and cross are a round tower (KK024-062004-) and two ogham stones (KK024-062005-; KK024-062009-). This is incorrectly classified as a font (KK024-062006-) in the SMR (1987). A plain sandstone roughly formed cross-base which tapers towards the top (total H 0.56m; Wth at base 0.58m; D at base 0.44m; Wth at top 0.48m; D at top 0.38m) which steps in (Wth 0.03-0.04m) at the top (H 0.05m; Wth 0.42m; D 0.26m). A mortise (dims. 0.27m x 0.13m; D 0.12m) in its upper surface received the tenon of the shaft. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 March 2017

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