Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Carragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05696, -8.78689
- SMR number
- GA123-027002-
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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
This small crude cross (H 0.34m; arm span 0.47m; base Wth 0.13m; T 0.09m) is set upright at the centre of a stone altar (GA123-027----) and faces NNW. No decoration is evident. Masses were offered here in penal times (Glynn 1908, 193). The monument appears to be still regarded as a place of worship.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.