Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Ballycallan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycallan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62177, -7.36557
- SMR number
- KK018-072003-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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
Indicated in Curragh townland on the revised ed. of the OS 6-inch map and recorded as KK022-008----. This ‘small ancient cross' was identified in the 1850s and was described as being, 'evidently very old; the rubble work upon which its base is placed is modern, having been built by the country people, that by thus raising the cross it would look more important, as it is very small, and is called in Irish, 'Crois-gar,' or the little cross. The Rev. James Graves suggests that it may originally have been the gable cross of Ballycallan [medieval] church [KK018-072001-]' (Anon. 1854-5, 343-4). The church and graveyard (KK018-072002-) lie c. 1km NW of the cross.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 February 2021
References
Anon. 1854-5 Proceedings and transcations. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 3, 129-206, 337-45.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.