What is recorded here

One granite cross still stands in a Kildare graveyard, its tall shaft marking an early monastic site long before the surrounding stones acquired their present shape. It has no carved scene to read, only plain panels edged in rounded mouldings, yet that emptiness makes the place harder to forget. A monastery may have prayed beside it, tested it, or simply left it standing while the world changed around it. The cross does not explain itself; it waits for people to arrive with their own hunger for meaning.

To SE of centre in a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 394), the East Cross, of granite, comprises a tall rectangular shaft (H. 3m; L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m) with undecorated panels outlined by low rounded mouldings, set in a pyramidal base (H. 0.3m; L 1m; Wth 0.9m). (Harbison 1992, 159: Figs. 531) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

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