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Cross-inscribed stone

Hunterstown, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed stone, Hunterstown, 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
Hunterstown
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
53.83144, -6.52992
SMR number
LH017-090----

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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: 17 July 2007

Locally known as the 'Soldier's Stone', embedded in S bank of the roadway c. a quarter of a mile E of Blakestown crossroads. It is a large, almost oval slab (max. L 1.92m, max. Wth 1.12m, T 0.04m) with rough surfaces and irregular edges. The decoration, which is confined to one end of the stone, consists of a broadly incised Latin cross with its head contained within a finely cut circle. The arms splay gradually towards their extremities and the top and base of the stem have pronounced irregularly-shaped splays. The basal portion of the stem has a crosslet with arms of unequal length. There are three small Latin crosses faintly incised on the stone close to the base of the main cross. (CLAJ 1946, 105; PRIA 61C, figs 13:3 and 28:5, pl. XXI:1)

Nearby in the register

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

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