Cross - Churchyard cross

The National Monuments Service's description

There is a sandstone cross in the graveyard S of the church that was erected in 1688 by Patrick Cruise and Catherine Dalton, according to an inscription on three sides. It is a ringed cross (H 2.23m; Wth 1.13m) with a shaft tapering from the bottom (dims 0.44m x 0.2m) where it is set in a base (dims 0.61m x 0.62m), only the top of which is visible. The ring (ext. diam. 0.96m; int. diam. 0.91-0.93m) is plain but a Madonna and Child occupy the shaft on the E side while a Crucifixion (Harbison 2000, 68) occupies the whole of the W face. All the carving on the cross is in false relief. (King 1987, 302)

This is a monument in state guardianship: No. 264.

See the attached images of the cross

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 July, 2014

References

King, H.A. 1987 Seventeenth-century effigial sculpture in the north Meath area. In E. Rynne (ed.), Figures from the past: studies on figurative art in Christian Ireland in honour of Helen M. Roe, 283-307. Dun Laoghaire. Glendale Press.

Harbison, P. 2000 The Crucifixion in Irish Art. Blackrock, Columba Press.