Bealin High Cross

Baylin High Cross is located about 6.2 km (3.9 mi) east of Athlone.

The cross is believed to have been moved, perhaps from Clonmacnoise.^[2] On the east face was a lion and a scroll of interlaced creatures with birdlike heads running up the shaft, and a Celtic knot pattern at the centre of the head. The North face shows a hunting scene with a horseman with spear and a dog biting a deer's leg.

There is an inscription at the bottom of the west face dating the cross to around AD 800: the inscription reads OROIT AR TUATHGALL LAS DERNATH IN CHROSSA (Middle Irish: 'A prayer for Tuathgal who caused this cross to be made'), referring to the Abbot of Clonmacnoise who died in 811.^[3][4][5]

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  East side view
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  Crawford's sketch of ornamentations