Carrowcanon Celtic High Cross Info & Photo Gallery  

 

Location: Ray's Church, Carrowcanon, Falcarragh, Co Donegal, Ireland.

An Cheathru Cheahainn, An Fál Carrach, Co. Donegal, Eire.

 

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Access: By road, There is a small lane that runs just to the church and cross. From Falcarragh take the road to Dunfanaghy the N56, after you cross over the Ray River at the Drumavoghy Bridge take the next lane to the left, the Rays church is at the bottom of the lane.

 

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Description:  A high Cross with a ringed head. This cross is massive and broken. They are having to use metal brackets to hold the cross together and fix it to the wall of the old church to keep it upright. Another cross done in the style of the ancient navigational instrument of the Irish people.

 

 

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Traditional Lore: A county-level nineteenth-century topographical note referring to Raymunterdoney mentions “a remarkable cross” in the old churchyard.

This may be the cross people now associate with the Carrowcanon / Cross Roads area, but the older source doesn’t use the modern townland name and lacks the carved detail modern writers emphasize. That nineteenth-century observation is useful but not a modern archaeological description.

 

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Measurements: Measured at 21 feet tall

Lat.  55 08.8 N :  Long. : 08 04.2 W

Other Sites close by: Ballycannon Megalithic Chamber Ray's Grotto Megalitic Chamber Moyra Megalithic Chamber Ballyboe Megalithic Chamber

Errarooey Clift Fort Errarooey Megalithic Chamber Fawnmore Megalithic Chamber Greenhill Megalithic Chamber

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