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, -6.64718
- SMR number
- KD014-042001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of two wayside crosses (see KD014-042---- also) shown on Noble and Keenan's 1752 map of county Kildare, c. 1 mile 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, 'the larger of the two' having been moved to 'the farmyard at Prospect, nearly opposite the spot on which it formerly stood'. Both bases were subsequently moved to Sherlockstown graveyard (KD014-043003-). A square limestone base (dims. L 1m; Wth 1m; H 0.6m) has a chamferred upper surface and bears a badly worn inscription, of which only the words 'me fecet' are legible. The original location for this monument is designated KD014-028----.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.