Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05168, -6.38447
- SMR number
- LH004-097006-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This stands roughly at the centre of a circular mound (LH004-097004-). Excavations in 1966 indicated that this must have been relocated to this position within the graveyard in modern times. It consists of a squarish granite block with a flat top in which there is a socket for tenon, most probably for a high cross. A fragment of what appears to have been the remains of this cross was recovered during the restoration of a small portion of the graveyard wall c. 1997. The fragment (dims. 0.34m by 0.31m) consists of a portion of carved granite, representing the central part of a small high cross. On one side there is a prominent boss (diam. 0.1m), which stands proud of the surface. The decoration on the other sides cosnsits of a circular area (diam. 0.14m) defined by a ring with a central ‘cupmark’. This fragment is in Dundalk Museum (LH007-190----).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 26 June 2014
References
Condit, T. and Buckley, V. 2007 Faughart, Co. Louth - the hill of heroes, saints, battles and boundaries. Archaeology Ireland. Heritage Guide No. 37.
Nearby in the register
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.