What is recorded here

Stone Cross stands at the east end of a low ridge in County Kildare, its granite body narrowed and stubby-armed as if chopped from a larger block. White quartz flecks glint under the south arm, and rough stones cluster at its base like a forgotten plinth. The cross shape is rude, barely suggested, yet it rises thirty-three and a half centimetres above the gentle slopes that fall away on three sides. Whatever hand shaped it worked quickly, perhaps angrily, perhaps in a hurry to mark something worth remembering before the pasture swallowed the meaning whole.

At the E-end of a low ridge, with long, gentle slopes falling away immediately to the N, E and S, and level pasture running off to the W. A tall, granite pillar, (H. 3.35m); the upper portion of which has been roughly worked into the shape of a rude cross. The stone appears to be a granite conglomerate, with some white quartz inclusions visible under the S-arm of the cross. The stone is roughly shaped, being a rounded-rectangular on a N-S axis at the base (Wth 0.95m; T 0.7m) before narrowing to an almost square section above (Wth 0.45m; T 0.4m), with stubby arms (Wth 0.6m) near the top. Several large, rough blocks at the base, not all of them earthfast, may have been an attempt at creating a rough plinth (H 0.4m). (De Burg 1896, 320; Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 358; Crawford 1907, 237; Price 1935-45, 140) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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