Nurney Cross is a stone cross located in Nurney,

County Carlow County Carlow ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county located in the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region of Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. Carlow is the List of Irish counties by area, second smallest and t ...

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, and is an early example of a

high cross A high cross or standing cross (, , ) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated. There was a unique Early Medieval tradition in Ireland and Britain of raising large sculpted stone crosses, usually outdoors. Th ...

. The site was a monastic site founded by

Abbán Abbán of Corbmaic (, ; d. 520?), also Eibbán or Moabba, was a saint and abbot. He is associated, first and foremost, with the Mag Arnaide (Moyarney or Adamstown, County Wexford, near New Ross).Ó Riain, "Abbán" His order was, however, also c ...

in the 5th century AD and the cross is believed to date from that time.

Description

The cross is a circle-headed cross embedded in the ground near St. John's Church of Ireland, Nurney. A second cross nearby stands high and is about wide at the arms and thick.

References

{{Reflist National monuments in County Carlow High crosses in the Republic of Ireland