Clare - DYSART O'DEA HIGH CROSS, PARISH OF DYSART (TOLA)

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THE DYSART O'DEA HIGH CROSS, PARISH OF DYSART (TOLA)
   [From Lord Walter FitzGerald]

'A cast of this cross stands in the gallery of the Dublin
Science and Art Museum. It show two inscriptions carved in
blank spaces on different faces of the base.  One runs':-
"THIS CROSS WAS NEWLY REPAIRED BY MICHAEL O
DEA SON OF CONNOR CRONE O DEA IN THE YEARE 1683

 'A few of the letters in the inscription are conjoined. The
word CRONE means "the swarthy."  The O'Dea territory was
known as "Kinel Fearmaic," which lay in the present Barony
of Inchiquin.'

 'The second inscription reads':-

RE-ERECTED BY FRANCIS HUTCHINSON SYN-
GE OF DYSART FOURTH SON OF THE LATE SI-
R EDWARD SYNGE BART AND MARY HELENA
HIS WIFE IN THE YEAR 1871.

'Sir Edward Synge, 2nd Baronet, married Mary Helena, eldest
daughter of Robert Welsh, of the Irish Bar; he died in 1843;
their fourth son, born in 1820, died on the 17th September,
1871; his three elder brothers each succeeded to the
Baronetcy. "The Patron Saint of Dysart O'Dea was St. Tola,
alias Manawla, who was venerated on the 30th of March.'

SOURCE:
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland vol. 9 - FHL # 1279285