Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Kilmashogue, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmashogue
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26997, -6.28148
- SMR number
- DU022-031----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Known as the wartstone, this is a roadside boulder (L 0.4m, Wth 0.23m, D 0.12m) with a rectangular mortice in the S end of its upper surface. On the same surface is a small inscribed cross with expanded terminals and the letters IL (Turner 1983, 14; O h Ealidhe & Prendergast 1977, Fig. 29, 141-2).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26th April 2012
References
Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.