At Robertstown there's an old graveyard not marked on the OS Map. The graveyard has a few very old headstones and the poor ruins of a church dedicated to St. Brigid.
But the most interesting item of the site is the nice stone cross on the north side of the narrow path from the graveyard gate.
It's half hidden in the hedge and could go unseen when walking to the graveyard.
The cross stands on a rough stone plinth. It is 1.25 metres tall, 20 centimetres wide at the shaft and 44 centimetres wide at the arms. It's 17 centimetres thick.
The south (180°) side of the cross depicts a crucifixion, and above it there's a head with a pair of wings.
The bottom half of the crucifixion is missing, leading to the hint that part of the cross has been lost. The lowest half of the shaft has a very worn out inscription dated to 1685, which reads "SOVERAIN LORD KING JAMES THE SECOND BY THE GRACE OF GOD" (after Dean Anthony Cogan).
The north side of the stone cross has a Greek cross inscribed in a circle 15 centimetres in diameter. Right above the circle there's something that might look like a human head, and a long shape elongates from the bottom of the circle, like it was a crucifixion.
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