What is recorded here
Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 195-6) gives the following account, 'a large rough granite cross-base … lies near the road… . When I visited the place in 1896, an old man … informed me that he remembered seeing the cross standing on the base; but that some fifteen years ago it was dislodged by treasure-seekers, who excavated…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD018-012
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Photo credits
- Robin Pollard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Raheens GAA club; article by Eamonn Carey; photographer not named, raheensgaa.ie
- Kildare Nationalist; photographer of this frame not stated, www.kildare-nationalist.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, www.boboandchichi.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.topwar.ru
- Royalcanalrunner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kk, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
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