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Cross-inscribed stone

Hoathstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed stone, Hoathstown, 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
Hoathstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.84559, -6.49552
SMR number
LH017-089002-

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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

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: 22 June 2012
Revised by: Claire Breen

Two cross-inscribed stones are situated on top of a high roadside verge between Ardee and Dunleer. One (LH017-089001-) 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

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

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