Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Tipper South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tipper South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.20661, -6.62068
- SMR number
- KD019-039004-
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
In a graveyard (KD019-039001-). An erect fragment of a limestone Latin cross (H 1.6m) has a square shaft (dims. L 0.28m; Wth 0.28m) and arms (Wth 0.63m). There is a small rectangular mortice in the upper end (dims. L 0.055m; Wth 0.045m; D 0.07m). One face carry's the date 1616, the crucifixion, INRI and IHS. The other face also carry's an IHS, two coats of arms and two sets of initials: I.D. and M.W., possibly referring to the Delahide and Walsh families. (McCabe 1996, 106)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.