Ballaugh Cross
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| Ballaugh Cross |
This is the only cross to be found in the Parish of Ballaugh up to the present day. It once stood in the burial ground of the old church, which was probably the site of an ancient Keeil or hermit’s cell.
It now stands in the church by the font. The stone is a wheel-headed cross, the bottom narrowed so as to fit into a plinth. The height of the cross is fifty four inches; across the head, nineteen inches; the base, twenty and a half inches; across the foot, fourteen inches; and it is three inches thick.
On one face of the cross is a beautifully decorated full tendril pattern. The shaft of the design is emphasised by the bands and tendrils interlaced around a central boss, instead of through a ring.
Above the head is a horizontal band with plait of three and on each side two diagonal oval rings
interlaced and finished with elaborate flourishes. The reverse face of the cross has a similar shaft
and limbs but connected by a circle. The shaft is beautifully decorated with a tendril pattern, which consists of two bands converging and diverging at regular intervals.
OULAIR: LIUTULBSUNR: RATS (T)I: (K)RS: pANA: AIFTIRULB: SUNSIN:
OLAF LIOTULFSON ERECTED THIS CROSS TO THE MEMORY OF ULF HIS SON
The inscription runs up the space to the left of the shaft, ending in the flat recess between the limbs and the circle.