Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross (present location)
Sherlockstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sherlockstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bases of Crosses
- Coordinates
- 53.26401, -6.64716
- SMR number
- KD014-042----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of two wayside crosses shown on Noble and Keenan's 1752 map of Kildare, c. 900m to the N, on the road from Sherlockstown to Straffan. By the late 19th century, according to Sherlock (1891-95, 40), 'only the bases' remained, one of which (KD014-042001-) 'is built into the boundary wall of Little Rath', where it is also shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. (The original location of KD014-042001-is designated KD014-028----.) Both bases were subsequently moved to Sherlockstown graveyard (KD014-043003-). A square limestone base (dims. L 0.74m; Wth 0.74m; H 0.7m) has a chamfered upper surface with a small rectangular mortice. Record number KD014-042002-- has been created to cover the original location of this cross.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.