Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Christianstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Christianstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21427, -6.89168
- SMR number
- KD017-029----
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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
Recorded by Fitzgerald (1891-5, 205); 'In the possession of Dr. J. M. Neale, of Newington House, near Feighcullen, is the cap or top-stone, of granite, of a Celtic cross; it is shaped like the gable ends and roof of a house; the two gable-ends are plain, but the roof is cut into squares as imitation of slates or tiles, alternately, six in one row, and seven in the next. Its measurements are, 15 in. (0.38m) in height, 14 in. (c.0.35m) in length at the base; and 12 in. (c.0.3m) at the top; in depth at the base, 9.5 inches (c.0.24m). There is a socket underneath 5.5 (0.14m) in by 4 (0.10m). It is not known where this cross-cap was brought from.' (Crawford 1907, 237)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.