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Dunsany : Cross

CountyMeath
Grid RefN 918 552
Longitude6° 36' 54.65" W
Latitude53° 32' 19.35" N
Nearest TownDunshaughlin (5.6 Km)
OS Sheet42
UTM zone29U
UTM x658033.57800924
UTM y5934845.895764

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Visit Notes

Sunday, 2nd June 2002

This cross is a late one and very reminiscient of an English market cross, standing as it does on a four-tiered stepped pyramid that could not have been practical as steps.

The cross is tall and slender and a false-relief crucifixion is carved at the junction. Above this is a lamb, also in false-relief, again pointing to a much earlier style. However, it is undoubtedly from the tmes of the Pale with very strongly Anglicised styling.

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