Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Market cross
Rathfee, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfee
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Wooden Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Wooden Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.36815, -8.80187
- SMR number
- GA071-076004-
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
In an overgrown graveyard adjacent to a church (GA071-076001-). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as 'Wooden Cross'. Of it, the OS letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 288) record the tradition that 'there was a market held [here], the cross of which still remains'. No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.