Sarsfieldstown Cross


Sarsfieldstown Cross is a wayside cross and National Monument located in County Meath, Ireland.

Location

Sarsfieldstown Cross is located southwest of Laytown.

Description

Sarsfieldstown Cross is a late 16th-century memorial cross erected to remember Christopher Barnewall. The cross remains as a fragment of a shaft with figure sculpture in false relief and inscription. The inscription in Latin around the base reads: ''"Archbishop Octavian, Primate of all Ireland, has granted an indulgence in perpetuity, to every penitent, as often as they shall devoutly say an Our Father, and a Hail Mary, for the souls of Christopher Barnewall; Kt, and Elizabeth Plunket, and all the faithful departed."''