What is recorded here

No visible cross remains at this place. The region is called Cross (Remains of), but the surviving identification is in its name, not in a standing shape. Any description must stay with that absence: a lost cross, a remembered name, and the place kept separate because the feature once existed there.

A small Latin cross stands on a pyramidal base which in turn stands on a circular granite stone, possibly a millstone in the graveyard S of the medieval parish church. There is a deeply incised line on one of the faces of cross close to the base of the shaft (Handcock, 1899). Scantlebury states that St Maelruan's 'grave in the churchyard is pointed out where stands the base and part of the head of a small plain cross of granite' (1953, 67). He also points out the former veneration of the locals for this, stating that they 'would not suffer any corpse to be interred too near it' and that 'they were accustomed, too, to measure their family graves as being so many feet or yards from St Maelruan's grave' (Scantlebury 1953, 67). To see a 3D model of the cross visit https://skfb.ly/oJtVD Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 July 2023

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