Cross, Lakill And Moortown, Co. Westmeath
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Crosses & Monuments
On a roadside verge in County Westmeath, half-buried in briars, lies what remains of an early stone cross: four separate fragments, none of them quite fitting together, representing a monument that has been broken, partially repaired, broken again, and left to slowly weather beside a road that long postdates it.
What makes the object quietly strange is that somebody, at some unknown point in the past, drilled a small circular hole into the top of the lower shaft section and a matching hole into the upper shaft section, apparently trying to pin the pieces back together. The repair did not work, and closer examination confirmed that these two pieces were never adjacent to begin with, meaning the attempted restoration joined the wrong fragments entirely.
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