
What is recorded here
Bully's acre preserves a broken cross shaft on the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, its top cut into a tenon as if waiting for another world to reappear. The eastern rib tightens into a spiral before opening like a flame, while the western interlace drops into two round pendants. Whatever completed it has left behind a shape sharp enough to be remembered and incomplete enough to keep being imagined.
The high cross shaft is located in the SE corner of the gravceyard 9Dims. H m, Wth 0.71m, T 0.31m). Known as Bully's acre on the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. It stands in a granite base. The E face has a sunken panel. It contais a vertical rib inrelief which opensout into a spiral at the base and expands into a V-shape at the top. On the West face is a similar sunken panel bearing an interlace which terminates in two pendants with circular bosses at the top. The sides also bear sunken panels. The top of the shaft has been cut away leaving the top of the cros in the form of a tenon (Harbison 1992, I & II, 130, 337, Figs.435-456).
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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