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
- CV034-046010-
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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 latin cross (H 0.55m; span 0.38m; T 0.13-0.14m) has slightly expanding arms like penal crosses. On one face is a recessed cross beneath which is the inscription: IN THE / YEAR / OF OUR / LORD / 1685 / AGED 88 YEARS. On one side beneath the arm is the inscription: BR / IAN / FERE / LLY. Davies (1948, 114) describes a fragment from a cross shaft with the inscription: THIS. CR / OS. WAS / ERECT / ED BY / DENIS / FERELL / Y IN. RE / MEMBR / ANC This piece is now missing but could have been related to this cross.
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Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of 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.