Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Newtown (Rathmore ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Rathmore ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.20619, -6.60728
- SMR number
- KD019-041----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
At the E-end of a low ridge, with long, gentle slopes falling away immediately to the N, E and S, and level pasture running off to the W. A tall, granite pillar, (H. 3.35m); the upper portion of which has been roughly worked into the shape of a rude cross. The stone appears to be a granite conglomerate, with some white quartz inclusions visible under the S-arm of the cross. The stone is roughly shaped, being a rounded-rectangular on a N-S axis at the base (Wth 0.95m; T 0.7m) before narrowing to an almost square section above (Wth 0.45m; T 0.4m), with stubby arms (Wth 0.6m) near the top. Several large, rough blocks at the base, not all of them earthfast, may have been an attempt at creating a rough plinth (H 0.4m). (De Burg 1896, 320; Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 358; Crawford 1907, 237; Price 1935-45, 140)
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.