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Cross - High cross

Lorum, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Lorum, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lorum
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.66397, -6.93223
SMR number
CW019-010001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

National Monument No. 350. 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

Portion of narrow, granite shaft (H 0.55m; Wth 0.30m; T 0.15m) in flat, disc-shaped base standing on small cairn (diam. 2.1m; H 1.1m). Two panels faintly outlined by low mouldings on E face. See also church site and graveyard (CW019-011----) 250m to E.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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