Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Tobernapeastia, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobernapeastia
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73133, -7.40759
- SMR number
- KK013-024----
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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
An early 17th-century wayside cross currently located in the square in Freshford (KK013-024004-). Prim (1850-51, 170) notes that the original position of the wayside cross was, ‘on the road-side between Freshford and Ballylarkan, near the back entrance to the demesne of Upper-Court; but the late Sir William Morres, caused it to be removed and re-erected in the village’. He notes that original location (c. 600m WSW of its current location), near the W end of Freshford was, ‘still called from this circumstance, in Irish, Bunn-na-Croise, or “the Foot of the Cross”' (ibid. 171). See KK13-024004- for a description of the cross.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 April 2020
References
Prim, J.G.A. 1849-51 The wayside crosses of Kilkenny. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 1, 168-85.
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical residenceunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.