What is recorded here
Emlagh Cross is a cross, high cross in Emlagh (castlereagh By., Castlereagh Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. The granite fragment stands less than a metre tall on a drumlin ridge at the early church site, with a separate cross-head placed back on top of the shaft. Its south face carries two panels of interlace in relief, while the north face bears spiral decoration rooted in pre-Christian Irish art. Peter Harbison recorded it as number 94 in his 1992 survey of Irish high crosses.
Set into a plinth beneath cross fragment (RO027-034009-) on the crest of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge at Emlagh church site (RO027-034001-). Granite cross-fragment (dims 0.23m x 0.1m; H 0.42m) with moulded edges and a badly worn interlace on its only exposed face. It was not recorded by Harbison (1992).
This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 397
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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