What is recorded here

O'Leary (1892) recorded the surviving limestone base as a memorial raised by Lady Anna for her father, Edmund, the 2nd Viscount Mountgarrett. The cross itself has been lost, but its beveled edge still carries a broken name in raised Roman capitals, and one side bears an armorial plaque in relief. It stands outside the south transept chapel in the graveyard beside the restored Cistercian abbey church, a small sharp monument to a family that wanted to be remembered long after the stone was diminished.

In Graiguenamanagh, in the graveyard adjoining the restored Cistercian abbey church (KK029-018001-), outside the side chapel of the S transept of the church. Only the rectangular base of the cross survives. It is limestone and the upper portion, which tapers inwards toward the cross-shaft, bears an inscription. There is an armorial plaque, in relief, on one side of the base. Described by O'Leary (1892, 241) as, 'the base and portion of the head of a stone cross raised by Lady Anna to the memory of her father, Edmund, the 2nd Viscount Mountgarrett. A mutilated inscription in raised Roman capitals runs on three sides of a bevel on the base, which may be read thus:- "Domina Anna Butlera Filia Edmundi Butleri Viscomitis Mount-Garret in A.D. 16..". See attached photograph: KK029-018005-_01 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 March 2022

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