Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Rathmore West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21725, -6.56529
- SMR number
- KD020-009008-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (KD020-009006-). A cross with a crucifixion scene first noted by Hendrick-Aylmer (1902, 381) and presumed missing (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 432) was subsequently discovered by the Naas Local History Group when undertaking a survey of the graveyard. According to McCabe (2000, 184-198), the top section of a cross of unusual fossiliferous stone, showing on one side, a crucifixion figure and, on the other, a carving of the Blessed Virgin, was found. It may date to the late-14/15th century. (McCabe 2008, 159-60)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
McCabe, B. 2008 Miscellanea: Granite cross in old Rathmore graveyard, Co. Kildare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 138, 159-60.
McCabe, B. 2000 Some notes on the history of Rathmore. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 19, 184-98.
Hendrick-Aylmer, H. 1899-1902 Rathmore. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3, 372-81.
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1986 Urban Archaeological Survey - County Kildare (4 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.