What is recorded here

One chamber of the cross became a bathhouse, its stones washed clean of marker meaning. The rest vanished into ownership and forgetting. What remains is a hole shaped like a cross, waiting for someone to stop asking whether it is true.

D'Alton (1838, 382) records the tradition that there was a market cross, taken down in 1778 by Robert Fowler, the then archbishop of Dublin, who used it in the construction of a bath house(Handcock 1899, 22). It was later removed from this position and Handcock (1899, 35) records that the recovered fragments were lying halk way up the friar's Walk'. There are no visible surface remains.

The market cross in Tallaght was reportedly taken down in 1778 by Robert Fowler, Archbishop of Dublin, and repurposed in the construction of a bath house; its original builder and date of erection are unknown. It appears to have been a late medieval or early modern structure, likely of local significance as a market cross.

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