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Stone Cross in Killary

Cross, High cross

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The decorated shaft of a high cross (dims 0.4m x 0.26m; H 1.3m) and its subcircular base (diam. 1.3m) are NW of Killary church (ME012-020----). From the bottom the decorative panels on the E face are: Adam and Eve, Noah’s ark, the sacrifice of Isaac and Daniel in the lions’ den, while the W face has the annunciation to shepherds, the baptism of Christ, the adoration of the Magi and the marriage feast at Cana. The N and S faces are decorated largely with interlace but there are two portraits of David (?) on the N side. (Crawford 1926, 2-3; Harbison 1992, 1, 124-5) See attached views from SW (001) from NE (005) and SE (13).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME012-020003

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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  • Hopmans at nl.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jan van Huchtenburgh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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