Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Cattan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cattan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89939, -7.75567
- SMR number
- LE036-042----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on top of a drumlin and c. just SW of a road from Cloone to Ballinamuck, Co. Longfort. A sandstone slab (dims 0.34 x 0.12m; H 0.78m) aligned N-S has a latin cross (H 0.34m; span 0.2m) in false relief with expanded terminals on its E face. The arms of the cross are deeply cut (Wth 5cm; D 1.5cm), and field stones are gathered around the base of the slab. It may be 17th or 18th-century in date. It is also thought to have been a mass-rock (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0222, 523-4, 569; Ó Cléirigh and Kelleher 1991, 134).
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The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Date of upload: 7 January 2020
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Ó Cléirigh, P. and Kellher, A. 1991. Assorted history of the parish. In Ó Cléirigh P. (ed.) Stair Gortleitreadh. The Gortletteragh GAA storey: 1889-1991. Plus an assorted history of the parish. Mohill, Gortletteragh GAA Club
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb1 mi
- Mound1 mi
- Mass-rock1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.