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Cross

Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, Laughanstown, 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
Laughanstown
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.24715, -6.15355
SMR number
DU026-023007-

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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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

O'Reilly (1901, 250) records that 'On a small hillock, immediately beside the cross [DU026-023004-], are two large granite boulders, in each of which a deep, straight-sided, rectangular mortice, that evidently was made to receive a cross-shaft, has been sunk. Assuming that one of these originally served as the plinth of the existing western cross, a search in the vicinity would, probably, unearth the fragments of a third free-standing cross.' At some point in the 20th century the western cross (DU026-23004-) was set in one of the boulders. To date no fragments of a third cross have come to light (Corlett 2014, 100-101).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 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.

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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