Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Churchyard cross
Relagh Beg, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Relagh Beg
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87195, -6.95058
- SMR number
- CV034-046003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The heads of two churchyard crosses with disc-heads and fragments probably belonging to one of them, a Latin churchyard cross with an inscription, and a stone with an inscription are set in cement just S of the N nave wall. This sandstone solid-ring cross (H 0.54m; span 0.39m; T 0.14m) with stubby arms has a pyramid on top. A crucifixion with a cherub above is depicted on one side, and IHS is carved on the ends of the arms. The reverse has a recessed cross in a circle with a cherub above. The letter A is inscribed over the cherub and below the cross are the letters: AUIL. Two fragments from cross shafts are likely to have been part of this cross. One piece (dims 0.25m x 0.14m; H 0.43m) has a carving of a bishop on one side and a man with raised arms on the other. A second stone (dims 0.26m x 0.15m; H 0.25m) has the upper part of a person on one side with the inscription: PAT / GARGA / N MAD / E THIS / CROSS / E ANNO / D 1686 on one side and the letters: N / M / GA on another.
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The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 8 August 2018
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of amended upload: 19 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
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- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.