Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Newtown (baker), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (baker)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54545, -7.31762
- SMR number
- KK027-012004-
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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
Associated with the medieval church of Newtown Earley (KK027-012001-) and uncovered during a clean-up of graveyard in 1985-7 (KK027-012009-) (Harte 1987, 408-17). Currently lying within the church.
A three-armed cross (surviving upper portion of head and shaft H 0.75m; Wth 0.50m; lower portion of shaft H 0.7m) with fleur-de-lys terminals and a hollow lozenge at the centre of the cross-head. The top fleur-de-lys is missing and the cross-shaft is broken horizontally across the shaft. It has a mason’s mark of a flower. (Harte 1987, 415-16, no. 27).
Reference:
Harte, R. 1987 Tombstones at Newtown Earley. Old Kilkenny Review 39, 408-17.
See attached photograph:
KK027-012003-_01
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.