Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Oldleighlin, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldleighlin
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 52.73602, -7.02874
- SMR number
- CW011-016003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Small granite undecorated wheeled cross with edge mouldings now standing in modern enclosure by St Molaise's Well (CW011-016004-). Granite base set in modern plinth. (Cross, H 1.27m; max. Wth 0.60m; T 0.15m; Base H 0.15m; 0.70m x 0.70m) (Bradley 1989, 45).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.