Eglish South Celtic Cross

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Name: Eglish Southern Celtic Cross remains, the name is from the Irish, An Eaglais, the Church.

Location: Eglish Townland, Benburg, Co. Armagh, Ireland.

Access: By road with parking facilities beside the Churchyard that this cross and it sister cross Eglish North are located.

Description:  Only the remains of the top of this cross is left and it has been mounted on a modern stone plinth.

The shape of this cross, like its sister cross, represents the old Irish navigational instrument.

Traditional Lore: ?

Information: First noted in 1930, lying loose in the graveyard, it is now mounted on a stone plinth. The broken Cross-Head is similar in form to the North Cross, but at the head the edge moldings run off the top and there is the stump of a broken tenon, clear signs that the cross originally had a separate stone finial.

The deep hollow at or near the crossing on each face is not original decoration. Except for the angle moldings, this was probably a plain cross.

Measurements: Broken,

Lat. :  54 23.4 N Long. : -06 45.6 W 

Other Sites close by:   Eglish North Celtic Cross  Corhill Inscribed Stone Caledorn House Celtic Cross Tynan Celtic Cross Tynan Abbey Celtic Cross North Tynan Abbey Celtic Cross South