Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Elmvale, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elmvale
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- CL016-128----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described in the OS Letters as near Elm Vale house which was ‘called by the peasantry Tigh na Croise or House of the Cross’ (Comber 1997, 14) and described by Westropp (1900, 140) as one of two crosses ‘which marked the church lands at Crossard and Elmvale (Crossoughter)’. The location of this cross is unknown. ‘Brian Boru’s Well’ (CL016-100----) is located c. 111m to the S of Elmvale House.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 19 July 2022
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.