What is recorded here
Monknewtown parish church in County Meath keeps a small sandstone cross inside a north-wall cupboard. The disc-headed stone measures twenty-seven by twenty-six centimetres, with short arms and curved depressions marking a ring on each side. It is the kind of object people may have carried into worship, set aside when the church changed, or forgotten until someone opened the cupboard and remembered.
In the cupboard on the N wall of Monknewtown parish church (ME019-019----) is a small sandstone disc-headed cross (dims 0.27m x 0.26m; T 0.09m) with short arms (L c. 6cm; Wth 8.5cm) and arc-shaped depressions in the disc to indicate the separation of the ring on each side.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 June, 2014
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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