What is recorded here

Stone Cross stands beside the Malahide road, marking the entrance to St. Doolaghs church and graveyard. Its short arms and triangular head rise only one point six metres above a double-stepped pedestal. Austin Cooper found it inside the graveyard during his late 18th century visit, suggesting people moved it rather than building a new one. The cross still points toward burial ground and memory, unchanged in its purpose if not its position.

A stone cross marks the entrance to St. Doolaghs church and graveyard (DU015-009002-). In the late 18th century, when Austin Cooper visited the site, it was located in the graveyard (Price 1942, 70). It has very short arms and a triangular-shaped head (H 1.6m). It is set on a double-stepped pedestal immediately next to the Malahide road. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 25 January 2015

The stone cross at Saintdoolaghs was likely erected in the late medieval period and may have been associated with the early Christian church dedicated to St. Doolagh. It is a simple high cross style, possibly 9th- to 12th-century in origin, and marks the entrance to a historically significant church site and graveyard.

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