Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tallaght
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross (Remains of)
- Coordinates
- 53.28892, -6.36486
- SMR number
- DU021-037006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A small Latin cross stands on a pyramidal base which in turn stands on a circular granite stone, possibly a millstone in the graveyard S of the medieval parish church. There is a deeply incised line on one of the faces of cross close to the base of the shaft (Handcock, 1899). Scantlebury states that St Maelruan's 'grave in the churchyard is pointed out where stands the base and part of the head of a small plain cross of granite' (1953, 67). He also points out the former veneration of the locals for this, stating that they 'would not suffer any corpse to be interred too near it' and that 'they were accustomed, too, to measure their family graves as being so many feet or yards from St Maelruan's grave' (Scantlebury 1953, 67).
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Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 14 July 2023
References
Handcock, W.D. 1877 (1991 ed.) The history and antiquities of Tallaght in the county of Dublin. Dublin. Anna Livia Press.
Scantlebury, Rev. C.S. 1960 Tallaght - its Monastery and Castle. Dublin Historical Record, Vol 16, 65-77
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassified (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.