Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Carrickmines Great, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmines Great
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24618, -6.17763
- SMR number
- DU026-018----
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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
This granite boulder, containing a socket for a cross, is located in the front garden of a modern house, on the lands of Springfield Farm. It is level with the ground (boulder dims. L 0.76m, Wth 0.35m, D 0.23m). The socket is rectangular in plan (L 0.35m, Wth 0.20m, D 0.02m). According to the Schools Survey (1937) in the Irish Folklore Commission, there was a tradition that the cross was buried somewhere in the immediate vicinity (ÓhEalidhe 1959, 207).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.
References
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1959 Some unpublished antiquities of the Early Christian period in the Dublin area. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 205-6.
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.