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Tuam High Cross

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Tuam High Cross, also known as The Market Cross, is a mid-12th century sandstone cross with rolled and cavetto mouldings. The south face has two clerics in high relief and an inscription at its base translated as ‘Prayer for Turlough O’Connor for the … of Iarlath by whom was made’. At the base of the north face a second inscription is translated as ‘Prayer for O Hossin, for the Abbot, by whom w...

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