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Cross

Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, Saggart, County Dublin, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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