What is recorded here

Thirty centimetres of stone still stand beside the church in Scurlockstown, County Meath, though earth has swallowed most of the cross. It is a small disc-headed marker, no larger than a outstretched arm, half forgotten fifteen metres from the church wall. What it marked, who set it down and when they stopped reading it have all drifted away. The stone remains because someone shaped it, aligned it and left it for others to see.

Wilde (1850, 88) mentions a cross in the graveyard of Scurlockstown parish church (ME037-010----), and a disc-headed cross (visible H 0.3m; span 0.52m; T 0.13-0.16m) is almost buried c. 15m S of the SW angle of the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 March, 2015

A high cross in Scurlockstown, likely of early medieval origin, stands near the parish church; its disc-headed form suggests a Christian dedication and possible 9th- to 11th-century date, though specific builders and wider significance are not recorded.

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