Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Hoathstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hoathstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84560, -6.49556
- SMR number
- LH017-089001-
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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
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Two cross-inscribed stones are situated on top of a high roadside verge between Ardee and Dunleer. One consists of a flat-surfaced stone c. 0.6m high with a small plain cross carved within a circle at its bottom right-hand side. The other (LH017-089002-), which had once been removed to a nearby shop, consists of an irregular slab (0.5m by 0.45m by 0.11m) except for one straight edge. It has a simple inscribed Latin cross and circle which occupy most of its uneven surface. The circle cuts across the arms of the cross which extend outwards and have T-shaped terminals. (CLAJ 1956, 407; PRIA 61C, 118, 121).
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.