What is recorded here

Stone Cross in County Carlow is a small decorated granite cross re-erected around 1737 as a memorial, with an inscription that has since vanished. Around it, stillborn children were buried, giving the place a quiet weight that still lingers in the soil. The cross stands less than a metre tall, its arms barely half a metre wide, yet it carries more than stone can show. What is lost is not gone; it has simply stopped speaking in letters and begun speaking in silence.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Small decorated solid-wheeled granite cross (min. H 0.66m; Wth (arms) 0.48m, (shaft) 0.2m; T 0.18m). Appears to be cross which was re-erected about forty years previously as a memorial, and around which stillborn children were buried (OS Name Books 1839). Inscription 'OKL. DEC. 1737. A.C.' mentioned in OS Letters (1839, 306) not now visible.

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