Cross-inscribed stone in Mainham, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

In a graveyard (KD014-006002-). A broad, thin and gently tapering limestone slab (H 1.17m; Wth at top 0.73m; Wth at base 0.61m; T 0.008-0.10m) has a simple ringed Latin cross incised on its E face (H 0.97m; Wth 0.41m; diam. of ring 0.11m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD014-006003

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