
What is recorded here
In an overgrown graveyard adjacent to a church (GA071-076001-). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as 'Wooden Cross'. Of it, the OS letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 288) record the tradition that 'there was a market held [here], the cross of which still remains'. No visible surface trace survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
A local church or high cross; wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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