Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Glencolumbkille South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencolumbkille South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04017, -9.01418
- SMR number
- CL010-038004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S side of a trackway leading from a main road to St Columkille’s church (CL010-038002-) c. 125m to the SSW. Named ‘Cross’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Cross’ in the RMP (1996). A wayside cross surviving as a shaft set on pyramid of stone blocks (Wth at base 2.15m SW-NE; min. 1.6m NW-SE). The upright octagonal cross shaft (H 0.84m; Wth of each face 0.07-0.08m) is set into a mortise (0.2m x 0.2m) on a chamfered block (L 0.7m; Wth 0.7m; H 0.2m). The NW side of the shaft is broken near the top. The cross itself survived into the early 20th century, but was missing by the early 1990s (Swinfen 1992, 123). A channel (Wth 0.15m; D 0.06m) on the lower surface of the chamfered block suggests that it may have originally served as a drain-stone, perhaps in the nearby church (CL010-038002-).
The following image has been uploaded:
CL010-038004-_01.jpg View of wayside cross from N
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
References
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.