Muiredach’s Cross, cast in 1896, was the first of the High Crosses from which moulds were taken. Sig. Orlandi took five weeks to complete the casting, at a cost of £59.11s.10d. Casts were sent to The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Requests for casts also came from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Irish Industrial Exposition, New York (1905) and the London Franco-British exhibition (1908). In 1903 His Eminence Cardinal Moran, Sydney, Australia requested a copy of the ‘Great Cross of Monasterboice’. John Deghini & Son were awarded the contract for the casting, finish and painting of the cross and the cast was shipped to Australia at a cost of £46.10.