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Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, 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
Cruach Na Cara
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.30463, -9.91722
SMR number
GA076-020016-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

Associated with the ecclesiastical remains at the SE end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island and located within the enclosure (GA076-020014-) c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA076-020001-). Kinehan (1869, 90-91) recorded ‘a rectangular piece of limestone carved on both sides’ on the leacht (GA076-020010-) and noted that it may have been ‘part of the shaft of a cross’. He also noted that ‘the socket of the shaft of a cross’ at the side of the leacht ‘fits this piece.’ A rectangular limestone fragment (L 0.42m; Wth 0.32m; T 0.1m) was noted on the leacht but it was undecorated (see also GA076-020024- and GA076-020025-). The rectangular limestone socket (L 0.4m; Wth 0.14-0.19m) is visible on the ground to the SE of the cross-slab (GA076-020009-). (Bigger 1896, 109)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 7 June 2018

References

Bigger, F.J. 1896 Cruach Mac Dara, off the coast of Connamara: with a notice of its church, crosses, and antiquities. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 101-12.

Kinahan, G.H. 1868c Proceedings: Church on Illaun-Dara, near Roundstone, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 89-91.

Nearby in the register

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

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