Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Dunmore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61820, -8.74451
- SMR number
- GA017-161----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Now in the yard of the local library in Dunmore village. Plain limestone cross (H 0.51m, Wth 0.38m), with expanded terminals, set on a plinth. According to local tradition, it came from the old church (GA017-005001-) in Dunmore, some 300m to NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.