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Cross-slab (present location)

Leggetsrath West, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab (present location), Leggetsrath West, 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
Leggetsrath West
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65531, -7.22841
SMR number
KK019-026410-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Formerly situated on a small mound (diam. c. 3m; H 0.3m) c. 80m SE of Clone church (WX015-023001--), Co. Wexford. Currently in the OPW store, Kilkenny (Kilkenny depot stone carving number: KD047). An irregular sandstone slab (L 1.02m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.26cm) which tapers towards the base (see WX015-023012-). The broad face on one side is incised with a cross-of-arcs within a circle (diam. 0.29m). The top of the stone is damaged, with a portion missing, and some spalling extends from the top onto the upper portion of the cross. There is also a crack running roughly vertically down the dexter side of the cross face.
The cross slab was drawn by Du Noyer (1864-6, 443; Royal Irish Academy: Du Noyer Sketches VII/50) when it was located on the mound. The cross was then facing west.

See attached photograph:
KK019-026410-_01 (photograph by Chris Corlett)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 January 2023

References

Du Noyer, G. V. 1864-6 Early Irish and pre-Norman antiquities. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 9, 423-444.

Nearby in the register

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

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