What is recorded here
One chamber is a narrow white rib standing in grass, not a room or cave. The cross sits close to the top on the south-east face, small enough to require patience and close sight. The ridge rises behind it like a living boundary, suggesting the chamber is a marker rather than a forgotten building.
A short distance to the NNW of the highest point of a prominent NNW-SSE ridge. This low, narrow, subrectangular pillar stone (max. H 1.1m; Wth 0.28m; max. T 0.14m) is aligned ENE-WSW and tapers to a point. The upper part of the WSW face is irregular in profile. A very small Latin cross with expanded terminals is visible close to the top of the SSE face.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 6 June 2013
Likely dating to the Early Christian period, the cross-inscribed pillar in Grassyard may have served as a waymarker, memorial, or religious symbol. Such stones often carried Christian iconography and were associated with local traditions or ecclesiastical sites.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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