Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saggart
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28145, -6.44417
- SMR number
- DU021-034009-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A possible cross base originally classified as a bullaun stone was located at the E end of Saggart church (DU021-034002-) and graveyard (DU021-034003-). It may have been buried in the fosse defining the edge of the graveyard which may have been built on the site of the 7th-century monastery founded by St Mosacra.
Described by Ó Ríordáin (1947, 86) as follows; 'In his note on Saggart Lord Walter FitzGerald mentions a stone with a hollow in it known as the "wart-stone" but does not note the fact that it served as a socket for the cross or pillar the shaped end (height about 40 cm.) of which is still in position in the socket'.
See attached image taken from Ó Ríordáin 1947, Plate XIX, No. 6 and drawing taken from SMR File
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 24 March 2023
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1947 Miscellaneous discoveries in the Dublin neighbourhood. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 77, 84-5.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.