What is recorded here

Ballymore Eustace Stone Crosses is a ringed granite cross standing 3.4 metres tall in a County Kildare graveyard beside a nineteenth-century church. Its west face carries a later Roman-capital inscription recording that AM WALL erected the north cross in 1689, while the cross itself is probably pre-1200. When workers re-erected it in 1999, they found a crudely stepped granite boulder beneath it, a loose socket, soil and an old iron key, hinting that the church, graveyard and cross have kept layering one another for centuries.

According to Bradley et al. (1986, vol. 1, 79) it stands in a graveyard (KD029-011004-), to W of a 19th-century church. A tapering granite slab (H 1.03m; Wth 0.47-0.67m; T 0.19m) bears an incised cross with expanded arms, and is probably pre-1200 in date. (Corlett 2003, 87, 88, 106, Slab 1) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 August 2013

A standing stone with an incised cross, likely dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th century), possibly used as a memorial or waymark; such crosses are often associated with Christian burials or ecclesiastical sites.

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