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Cross-inscribed stone

Oldtown, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed stone, Oldtown, County Donegal, 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
Oldtown
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.94331, -7.72759
SMR number
DG053-033005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Leek Old Church: The ivy-covered ruins are essentially a 17th century alteration of a medieval church (DG053-033001-). This was carried out c. 1622 (Royal Commission, 212). Further repairs were carried out 1729-33 and it continued in use until a new parish church was built c. 1840 (Leslie 1940, 103). The slated roof was still intact when Fagan described the ruins in 1845 (Bk 6, 1-2). A rubble block (H 0.39m; L 0.60m) at about 0.3m high above the surface of the graveyard in the exterior face of the W gable and in 1.5m from the NW angle of the church retains the grooved outline of three incised crosses (DG053-033005-), this may be an example of an early-christian cross-slab reused as building fabric for the medieval church. The church (DG053-033001-) is situated inside a graveyard (DG053-033004-), which is still in use.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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