. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. and eight inches thick. It originally three feet eight inchesover the arms, but the southern arm, with the segment of the circleon that side, is Ijroken off and lost. The cross had a small rollmoulding round the edges, but not carried round the ring. Oneach face we can dimly see the figure of our Lord in the longgarment reaching to the ankles, which marks the early period of ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOUY. 71 Irish art, and with Ihc excellent prupurtiuii nf the cr
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. and eight inches thick. It originally three feet eight inchesover the arms, but the southern arm, with the segment of the circleon that side, is Ijroken off and lost. The cross had a small rollmoulding round the edges, but not carried round the ring. Oneach face we can dimly see the figure of our Lord in the longgarment reaching to the ankles, which marks the early period of ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOUY. 71 Irish art, and with Ihc excellent prupurtiuii nf the cross suggestsan age nearly, it not over, a tliousand years for the shaft is carefully fitted into an oblong mortice in a shapelessbase stone, which measures four feet nine inches across,and has a ])iillaiin, or shallow jjasin, one foot in diameter cutin its surface. The church of Kilgobl)in is said to owe its foundation to , whose festival falls on April 1st, and whose nameapjDcars in Tlie Martyrology of Tallaght, as well as in TheMartyrology of Donegal. After the Anglo-Norman ConquestKilgobbin was granted t
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