Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Market cross
Abbeycartron, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeycartron
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF013-026011-
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Longford town (LF013-026----). At the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion one of the O'Farrell's nailed a government proclamation to the market cross (Gillespie 2005, 106). This event is described in the 1641 depositions where it is recorded that he 'did affix one of the said Proclamacions or coppies to the Crosse in the Towne of longford' (TCD, MS 817, fol. 235v). Its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
References
Trinity College Dublin, The 1641 depositions. Dublin.
Gillespie, R. 2005 Reading Ireland. Manchester Univeristy Press.