Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Ross (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47938, -9.13182
- SMR number
- GA041-047010-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This cross is incorporated into the wall above the gateway that leads into the friary (GA041-047----). It is cruciform in shape with a solid disc at the junction of its arms and shaft. It stands on an octagonal base. An inscription across the arms and disc reads:
HOC SIGN CRV
ORATE PRO FRATRE THOMAS
ERIT 1635 CVIER
GA041-047010-.jpg view from S
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.