Cross - High cross

The National Monuments Service's description

Part of a cross-shaft came to light in a graveyard clean-up during 1990 together with two face corbels, and they are now incorporated in the reconstructed wall of the graveyard beside the entrance at S. This sandstone cross fragment (Wth 0.28m; H 0.45m; T 0.18m) is the top of the shaft with part of the hollowed angles at the crux. It has a double moulding around the edges and part of the junction with the ring. The side-panels are plain apart from edge moulding, but the other faces each has a figure carved in flat relief. One is almost certainly an ecclesiastic holding what might be a bell or a book, while the other seated figure could be female and is holding what is best interpreted as a baby leading to the conclusion that it is a rare representation of the Virgin and Child. The cross-base (LE033-006009-) and the transom (LE033-008003-) also at Cloone are part of the same cross. (Kelly 1993, 156-61; Grant 1994)

See the attached view of the ecclesiastic

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 6 December, 2019

References

Grant, C. 1994 New Leitrim high cross. Archaeology Ireland 8 (4), 16-17.

Kelly, D. 1993 Some remains of high crosses in the west of Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 123, 152-63.