Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.24750, -6.15343
- SMR number
- DU026-023003-
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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 road-side high cross stands c. 110m NW of Tully church (DU026-023003-). It is a plain granite ring-headed cross (H 2.34m by 0.9m across the ring) of c. 10th/11th-century date and is set into a cube-shaped base (H 2m); this was done sometime after 1860 (Corlett 2014, 100). There is a shingle design on the roof of the house-shaped capstone. On the upper surface of the base is a deeply incised Latin cross. (Anon. 1900, 185; O'Brien 1988, 512-513; Corlett 2014, 100-101)
Compiled by: Gerladine Stout
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 May 2015
References
Corlett, C. 2014 Tully church, Laughanstown, Co. Dublin. In C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds) The church in early medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 93-108. Wordwell. Dublin.
Anon. 1900 Excursion to Tully, Rathmichael, Kiltiernan and other places in south County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 180-92.
O'Brien, E. 1988b Churches of south-east county Dublin, 7th to 12th century. In G. Mac Niocaill and P.F. Wallace (eds), in Keimelia: studies in medieval history and archaeology in memory of Tom Delaney. Galway, 504-24. Galway University Press.
O'Reilly, P.J. 1901 The Christian sepulchral leacs and free-standing crosses of the Dublin half barony of Rathdown. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 134-161, 248-9.
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