Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Monument
- Coordinates
- 53.34248, -6.30613
- SMR number
- DU018-020284-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The high cross shaft is located in the SE corner of the gravceyard 9Dims. H m, Wth 0.71m, T 0.31m). Known as Bully's acre on the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. It stands in a granite base. The E face has a sunken panel. It contais a vertical rib inrelief which opensout into a spiral at the base and expands into a V-shape at the top. On the West face is a similar sunken panel bearing an interlace which terminates in two pendants with circular bosses at the top. The sides also bear sunken panels. The top of the shaft has been cut away leaving the top of the cros in the form of a tenon (Harbison 1992, I & II, 130, 337, Figs.435-456).
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.