| Cloone - High Cross |
Sadly very little of this monastic site is left. The site was founded in 570CE and possibly lasted until the 13th Century.
What does remain are three cross slabs, a broken bullaun, a cross base, some carved heads and a section of a cross shaft.
The cross shaft, two of the heads and the cross base are the easiest to find. The heads and the cross shaft are mounted into the wall next to the graveyard gate - the third head (not mentioned in the Leitrim Inventory) is built into the outside of the graveyard wall at the rear. The cross base is next to the path through the graveyard. This is undecorated, but its size indicates that the cross it once supported may have been quite substantial.
The cross slabs are arranged in a row on the opposite side of the path from the cross base one row of gravestones back. The broken bullaun is about 20m south of these next to a grave. One row of graves back from the bullaun and a little to the south of it there is a graveslab with some animals carved on it in false relief.
GPS refs:
cross slabs - N 14105 99857
bullaun - N 14098 99861
heads - N 14110 99825
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