Cross in Dunmore — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a metre of pale limestone stands in the Dunmore library yard, its expanded arms reaching like a hand paused mid-gesture. Local memory carries it from the abandoned church three hundred metres north-east, pulled through centuries into a place where children still touch its smooth edges. The cross does not warn or command; it waits, patient as a stone that has already survived every storm the sky could throw.

Now in the yard of the local library in Dunmore village. Plain limestone cross (H 0.51m, Wth 0.38m), with expanded terminals, set on a plinth. According to local tradition, it came from the old church (GA017-005001-) in Dunmore, some 300m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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