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Cross-inscribed stone

Hoathstown, County Louth, Ireland

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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

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: 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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