Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfenora
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99076, -9.21685
- SMR number
- CL016-015008-
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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
Erected c. 2006 in the NW corner of the ‘sacristy’ situated N of the chancel in Kilfenora Cathedral (CL016-015002-) due to weathering. Listed in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as ‘Cross’. This is known as the ‘South cross’ which was found in 1954 in the ground S of the cathedral (de Paor 1955, 59). It was one of originally 6 limestone high crosses at Kilfenora, five of which are still there (see CL016-015005-, CL016-015006-, CL016-015007-, and CL016-015013-) and one of which was moved to Killaloe in 1821 (CL045-033009-). This cross is described by Harbison (1992, vol. 1, 115) as the fragmentary shaft of a cross (H 1.95m; shaft 0.72m x 0.18m at base (the shaft tapers towards the top)). The E face (now facing S) has a horizontal panel of Stafford knots, with a panel of closer-meshed interlace above it, at the present top of the shaft. The W face (now facing N) has part of a panel of interlace forming a circular device near the top. On each face the roll moulding at the edge curls into a spiral at the bottom. The sides are undecorated. This is a national monument in State care, no. 8.
The following image is uploaded:
CL016-015008-_01.jpg The E face of the South cross in its new location in the cathedral (now facing S).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 September 2017
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
De Paor, L. 1955 The limestone crosses of Clare and Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 26, 53-71.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.