Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Cross (Ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross (Ardagh By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pedestal of Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.66703, -7.67677
- SMR number
- LF019-052----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
In level pasture, beneath two oak trees. Described in 1837 as 'the pedestal of a cross, at which the people perform stations. This must have been one of the crosses of the termon of Ardagh' (OSL, 39). Remains consist of a fragment of a cross-base with a subrectangular socket set in it (SMR file, 1977). The stone (L 0.6m; Wth 0.4m; H 0.1m), known locally as 'St Patrick's Knee', is set within a modern-looking, crescentic-shaped, low cairn (2m N-S; 1.6m E-W; H 0.25m).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.