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The monastic site with cross-shaft and base is an early Christian monument located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site preserves substantial remains of the stone cross characteristic of early medieval ecclesiastical centres across Ireland, with both the carved shaft and its base surviving in situ. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a sequence of Visean limestone, mudstone and sandstone interspersed with siltstone, chert and conglomerate that provided builders with accessible stone for both structural and decorative purposes.
Early Christian monastic foundations in this region typically served as centres of learning, worship and craft production from around the sixth century onwards. The presence of the surviving cross indicates the site's significance as a place of prayer and pilgrimage within the local Christian community. The stone cross-shaft itself would have functioned as a focal point within the monastic enclosure and may have marked a processional route or burial ground.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 9977, recognising its archaeological and historical importance as evidence of early Christian settlement patterns and religious practice in Fermanagh. The survival of both shaft and base is relatively uncommon, making this site a valuable record of monastic material culture in the early medieval period.
Monastic site with cross-shaft & base is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9977. View the official record →
The monastic site with cross-shaft and base is an early Christian monument located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9977.
Monastic site with cross-shaft & base dates from the e.christ. period, and is classified as a cross. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Monastic site with cross-shaft & base is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 9977.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Monastic site with cross-slab (0.1 km), Rath (5.3 km), Giant's grave. court tomb (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Monastic site with cross-shaft & base's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Monastic site with cross-shaft & base stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.