What is recorded here

In County Meath, a plough bit through soft earth beside the Church field and pulled up a circular cross head with a crucifixion carved on one side. The stone had waited beneath ordinary farmland, perhaps marking a holy enclosure now hidden under grass and forgetting. It travelled to the National Museum of Ireland in 1978, carrying the quiet weight of a place that no longer shows its shape but still gives up its memory.

Situated in a low-lying position on a gently undulating landscape. The circular head of a cross (H 0.42m; Wth 0.22m) with a solid ring (diam. 0.28m; T 7.5cm) and a crucifixion on one side, which had been found in ploughing in a field adjoin a field known as ‘the Church field’ was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1978 (Harbison 1992, 1, 25). It was found within the ecclesiastical enclosure (ME006-033----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 December, 2014

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