Termon Cross (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilbride funerals still stop at the Termon Cross site, keeping alive a marker the famine road works buried. The cross itself is gone, but the pause on the Clara to Kilbride road preserves its shape in memory. What was lost in earth returns in ritual, a cross redrawn each time by the living.

No evidence of any cross in the area marked on the 6 inch OS 6-inch map. This cross has long since dissappeared as Davies recalls in the ITA survey of 1942. Described in 1942 as 'Ths site of the cross, which has disappeared was at or close to the boundary of Kilbride Td. The road from Clara to Kilbride was sunk deep through the hill at the famine time, and the cross may then have disappeared. A small mound (OF008-057) on the S side of road has some superstitions attached, but the site was probably on N side, as shown on OS The tradition of the cross is preserved in that funerals to Kilbride stop at this point on the road' (ITA Survey 1942). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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