Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Waterstown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Waterstown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.88846, -6.68006
- SMR number
- CW004-012003-
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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
Historic Monument No. HM003511, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. A granite, undecorated, solid-wheeled cross (H 1.92m; Wth across arms 0.87m) with edge mouldings and slightly projecting arms, set in rectangular base (L 0.71m; Wth 0.6m). (Harbison 1992, 184 (entry 232))
Reference:
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland; An iconographical and photographic survey 3 vols. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, Bonn.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.