What is recorded here

Parknacrusha, or Field of the Cross, kept two stone markers: one upright cross on a cairn and one flat slab bearing a cross with expanded terminals. The slab is gone now, pulled from the field fence or forgotten by time, but the name still points to the place where both stood. You can still see the cairn and imagine the missing stone lying against the fence, its cross facing the sky before someone moved it or the land swallowed it.

Parknacrusha/Páirc na Croise: This field derives its name from the presence within it of a stone cross and a cross-inscribed stone, now missing. The stone cross KE052-283001- lies loose on a cairn of stones, 4m x 5m x 1m in height, which may simply be an accumulation of field clearance debris. The missing cross-inscribed stone KE052-283002- was a large prostrate slab, 1.6 x .76m, which lay against the nearby field fence. One face was inscribed with a cross with expanded terminals (Macalister 1899, 218-9; Windele 1848, 473; Curran no. 1) The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 859. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 8 August 2013

The cross-inscribed stone likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian activity in the area. Such stones often served as markers, memorials, or waypoints along pilgrimage routes.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.