What is recorded here

Knocknageehy holds a broken cross base carved with rope moulding, waiting for a shaft that never returned. The flat top still bears the mortice hole where wood once stood, marking burial ground and passing lives alike. A person may have chiselled that rope pattern in darkness, believing shape could hold what forgetting would take.

Base of cross immediately outside and to NE of burial ground (CO143-041001-). Rectangular stone (H 0.35m) with inclined sides (at base: 0.82m x 0.42m; at top: 0.3m x 0.21m). Flat top with central mortice hole (D 0.21m; 0.17m x 0.12m). Rope moulding along vertical edges. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the early Christian period (5th–9th centuries AD), this stone may have served as a base for a cross or as a memorial within a burial context. The mortice hole suggests it could have supported a wooden or metal object, possibly linked to ritual or commemorative use.

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