The OS map marks this sites as a Cross Pillar, but it's really a cross base. It isn't a very inspiring one at that. It is slender, about 1.2m tall and undecorated. Just down the road there are the remains of an abbey, but these too are very poor.
The reason I stopped by here was to take a look at the location. It was near to this cross base that the only piece of recorded rock-art from County Waterford was found. It now rests in a corridor in University College Cork. The decorated stone was found in the wall a few yards from the cross. The wall does look as if it was built from the nearby church ruins and it's interesting to think that the carved stone was once incorporated into one of the older church buildings.
As for the location, it's got quite a lot going for it. To roughly the southwest is a huge V-shaped notch in the Comeragh Mountains. Did the decorated stone originally mark this alignment?
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