Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Moone, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moone
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 52.97943, -6.82537
- SMR number
- KD036-031002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
National Monument No. 674. The South Cross is a slender granite ringed cross, with alternating panels of blank and figurative biblical scenes on the shaft and ring. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 332-4) It was situated to the S of the church but has been moved to a specially constructed sheltered area in the nave of the church.
Harbison 1992, 154-5: Figs. 508-519 - ref. abstracted and added to hard copy file.
Gearóid Conroy.
Date of upload: 5 September 2016
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.