Stone Cross
On raised ground at the base of a hill which rises to the S-SE, in rolling pasture overlooking a broad plain from NW-N. The high cross is on a hillock where there are a number of 18th and 19th century headstones. The land drops away steeply immediately S of this hillock to a small valley with St. Nicholas’s holy well (KK030-008007-) c. 10m to the S in this valley. The land rises again immediately S of this, on which rise there are the remains of a church (KK030-008003-). All these monuments are enclosed within the graveyard (KK030-008010-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 311-2) a monastery here was founded by St. Gobán Fionn early in the 7th century whose feast day is celebrated on the 6th of December. In the Annals of the Four Masters the obit of an abbot, Domhnall son of Niall is given in 1004 (Edwards 1990, 41). Of the monastic site only a high cross (KK030-008004-), two cross-slabs (KK030-008005-; KK030-008011-), a stone cross (KK030-008013-), the remains of a church (KK030-008003-) and two bullaun stones (KK030-008006-; KK030-008008-) are currently visible at the location. The sandstone open-ringed high cross (H 2.56m; roof-cap H c. 0.3m; total H c. 2.86m; cross head max. Wth 1.16m; cross shaft Wth 0.47m; T 0.35m) stands on a two-tiered base (basal dims. 1.25m square; H 0.7m). There is a raised heavy rope-like moulding around the edges which terminates at a projecting basal plinth which is formed at the base of the shaft. There is figurative carving in the cross heads and the panels are decorated with floral and interlace patterns. Edwards (1990, 61) dates the high cross to the end of the 8th or first half of the 9th century.
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Monument Type: Cross – High cross