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Cross - High cross

Ionascail, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Ionascail, 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
Ionascail
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.84762, -8.45121
SMR number
DG064-003008-

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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

Located within a graveyard (DG064-003001-) which encloses two medieval churches, St Mary’s (DG064-003002-) and St. Connell’s (DG064-003006-), a fragment of a high cross (DG064-003008-), four cross slabs (DG064-003004-; DG064-003005-; DG064-0030009-; DG064-003010-) and a graveslab (DG064-003007-). Another cross-slab (DG064-003003-) is now missing. This complex of monuments, a National Monument in state ownership (No. 658), is located on the E side of Inishkeel Island in good pasture land. This small island which lies in a sheltered spot c. 500m offshore is accessible on foot at low tide.

This fragment (1.21m × .46m × .095m) of a cross was recorded by Harbison (2002, 99) as follows:
'Among the interesting remains on the island of Inishkeel, off Portnoo, there is one fragment of a cross. It is 1.25m high, 47cm wide and 9cm deep. On its east face it bears a panel of broad interlace, framed by raised moulding at the edges. The stump of a segment of the ring can be seen at the top of the south side. The back is undecorated, but it has a vertical reveal 6cm wide and between 2 and 3cm deep at each side.'

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 6 March 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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