Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Abbeyshrule, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyshrule
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58008, -7.65681
- SMR number
- LF023-113006-
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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
Originally located in the burial ground (LF023-113002-) c. 30m to the NE of the Cistercian abbey (LF023-113----), this high cross has been moved to the sacristy of the RC church in the village of Abbeyshrule for safe-keeping (see LF023-129----). Crawford (1924, 171) recorded that the shaft of the cross was broken off above the socket and was loose in the graveyard; the arms were missing. Described by Harbison (1992, vol. 1, 9) as an armless sandstone cross (H 0. 97m; max. Wth 0.27m; T 0.1m) with a thistle-shaped head. There is a possible ringed cross at the centre of the E face. The shaft of the W face is decorated with interlace, and on the head there is a central round boss enclosed by two roll mouldings. Decoration on the sides includes vertical ribs in false relief and a meander pattern. Similar crosses are found at Laughanstown (DU026-023003-), county Dublin, Layd, county Antrim and Kildalton on the island of Islay in Scotland (Crawford 1908, 190; 1924, 171).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
Crawford, H.S. 1908 Miscellanea - Some crosses not mentioned in the list of Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38, 181-2.
Crawford, H.S. 1924 Cross at Abbeyshrule, County Longford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 54, 171.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.