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Emlagh Cross

Cross, High cross

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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 low drumlin ridge at the Emlagh church site, bearing interlace on one face and spiral decoration on the other. Peter Harbison catalogued it in his 1992 survey of Irish high crosses, placing it within a tradition of free-standing stone crosses that appeared across Ireland from the eighth century onward.
Situated on a plinth on the crest of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge at Emlagh church site (RO027-034001-). Cross-fragment (dims 0.35m x 0.25m; H 0.8m) with a poor interlace. It is set in a cross-base (RO027-034005-). (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 87, No. 96) This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 397 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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