GIRLEY High Cross
The head of a high cross was formerly built into the roadside wall in the NE corner of the graveyard at Girley. A small sketch of this was published by Crawford (1926, 9-10). It was described by O’Davies in 1940 (SMR file) as ‘Part of a perfect ring and cross, much covered with cement and difficult to see; top of ring broken. In centre is a cup-mark. At side of shaft just below ring apparently an interlaced pattern in raised frame.’ Davies was mistaken in his identification of a cup-mark at the centre which is shown in a sketch by Du Noyer as a two-looped whorl (Harbison 1992, 94). Davies also recorded part of the shaft as follows: ‘Part of cross-shaft, side apparently unornamented, front has a double frame and a very rubbed panel with squared interlaced ornament. Back built into walls.’ Both pieces were photographed in the mid-1960s (Harbison 1990-1, 136-7). The head at this time had been removed from the wall and was lying loose in the graveyard. The piece of the shaft was recorded built into a corner of a wall. Neither fragment was visible when the graveyard was inspected in 1984. (Harbison 1990-1, 134-8; Moore 1986, 136, No. 1408)
111502,ME03332,HICR,ME012-033002-,MEATH,KNOCK,R172916,687009,780061,53.762879740000002,-6.680367150000000,Cross – High cross,Not indicated,’Cross’,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME012-033002-,Within the graveyard (ME012-033001-). The head of a small stone cross (H 0.65m; Wth 0.48) with a solid ring and interlace decoration is protruding from the ground at the NE angle of the graveyard. Portion of the shaft (0.26m x 0.16m) is visible. (Crawford 1926
Monument Type: Cross – High cross