donaghmore high cross

A village with a tenth century high cross at the top of the main street. The cross, now rather worn, is 15ft tall and carved with biblical scenes. Close to the site of an early monastery associated with St. Patrick, it was damaged in the seventeenth century. The obvious join midway up the shaft suggests that when it was reassembled in 1776, bits from two separate crosses were used. A pillar in the graveyard begind the cross is a modern memorial to Hugh O'Neill.