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Stone Cross in Brockagh

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What is recorded here

National Monument in state ownership No. 134. Situated on level ground facing onto the triangle between the Glendalough access road and the road to the Wicklow Gap. An upright slab with a Latin cross in relief on the S face with a small Latin cross in false relief below the left transom. Described by Leask (1950, 41) as an ‘upright slab, 11 inches [0.27m] thick, carved on the south side with a rough Latin cross in relief beside the shaft of which, on the dexter side, is a small sunk cross of the same shape’. Extract from the Eightieth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1911-12. Dublin, 1925.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI023-013

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