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Cross - Wayside cross

Tobernapeastia, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Wayside cross, Tobernapeastia, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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