Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Cahermore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lackmacmahon Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lackmacmahon Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.11651, -8.86131
- SMR number
- GA113-071----
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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 pastureland on the W side of the road, close to a T-junction. This plain squat thin limestone cross (H 1.08m; max. T 0.1m), cruciform in plan, is set on a small cairn (H 0.4m) beside a whitethorn bush. The solid cross-head (max. Wth 0.57m) has two stumpy arms, angled slightly upwards. Apart from a smooth finish on its E face, the cross is undecorated. Possibly of early Christian date. Crosses of somewhat similar shape are found on St MacDara's Island (see GA076-020008-) and Inchagoill (see GA110-023027-). It appears to be in its original position (SMR file, 1982).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1982).
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.