Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Moone, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moone
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97943, -6.82543
- SMR number
- KD036-031006-
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
Built into a cement surround in the nave of the church (KD036-031001-). Fragments of a large ringed cross with part of the shaft, decorated with panels of animal and figure sculpture. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 336-7)
(Parts of a ringed cross have been built into the nave of the church; it has traces of figurative decoration (shaft dims. 0.41 x 0.17; H. 0.72m; arm dims. 0.52m x 0.72m; H. 0.37m))
Harbison 1992, 156-7: Figs. 520-22 - ref. abstracted and added to hard copy file.
Gearóid Conroy.
Date of upload: 5 September 2016
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.