Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Labbamolaga Middle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Labbamolaga Middle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31000, -8.34741
- SMR number
- CO010-003006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly leaning upright in the SE corner of an early medieval church (CO010-003004). This small plain Latin cross is cut out of sandstone; the terminals are broken, the angles slightly curved. Described by Crawford (1907, 204) as 'the upper part of a small plain Latin cross, 30 inches long'. According to Windele (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 17), a 'brown stone cross' was resting on the covering stone of the Saint's Tomb, 'St Molaga's Bed' (CO010-003005-) in 1852, but had been 'injured and shortened' since an earlier visit. The cross was noted as present by the National Monuments and Historic Properties Service, Dúchas, in 1995, but reported missing by them in 1997.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
References
Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 326-34.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.