Cross - High cross

The National Monuments Service's description

Monastery founded by St. Kieran the elder in the fifth century (ITA Survey 1943). Ecclesiastical site consists of an irregular shaped graveyard (OF039-003007-) with poorly preserved church (OF039-003005-) with gun turret at SE angle, base of round tower (OF039-003003-) at NW angle, base of high cross (OF039-003002-), cross-slabs, architectural fragments. 19th-century C of I church and medieval earthworks of a deserted medieval settlement enclosing graveyard from S through W to N and low motte (OF039-003----) to SW, all of which is contained within the impressive remains of a bivallate ecclesiastical enclosure (OF039-003001-).
A truncated pyramidal shaped base of a high cross (OF039-003002-) with rectangular socket located to the S of the priory (OF039-003005-) with smaller pyramidal shaped base of a small cross (0.32m by 0.46m by 0.33m) beside larger cross base (OF039-003002-).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

References

Irish Tourist Association. Surveys undertaken in the 1940s for the Irish Tourist Association (now Fáilte Ireland) relating to ‘Natural features, antiquities, historic associations etc.' Extracts from these surveys were copied into the Topographical files of the Office of Public Works and these have been incorporated into the Sites and Monuments Record files (National Monuments Service).