Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Lacken (idrone East By.), County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lacken (idrone East By.)
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 52.61420, -6.87107
- SMR number
- CW022-016----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 decorated solid-wheeled granite cross (min. H 0.66m; Wth (arms) 0.48m, (shaft) 0.2m; T 0.18m). Appears to be cross which was re-erected about forty years previously as a memorial, and around which stillborn children were buried (OS Name Books 1839). Inscription 'OKL. DEC. 1737. A.C.' mentioned in OS Letters (1839, 306) not now visible.
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock art (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.