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Cross

Cross, High cross

What is recorded here

Anne Ahern Getty wrote Orwen and Sabrina in 1970, giving fictional shape to the local story that two ill-fated lovers sleep beneath the cross. The claim is not in the stone, which remains unnamed and broken into a ring head and separate shaft. It is in the life the place continued to lead after people stopped knowing why they had made it.
There is a small pyramidal cross-base (dims 0.6m x 0.6m; H 0.5m) of sandstone with edge mouldings on the top within Killary church (ME012-020----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 August, 2014

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Recorded monument

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