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Cross - High cross

Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Faughart Upper, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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