Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Dunleer, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleer
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83180, -6.39401
- SMR number
- LH018-064011-
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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
A greywacke stone of irregular shape (0.77m by 0.37m) decorated with two cross heads carved in relief. One is a simple crudely executed ringed cross with slightly expanding terminals which extend just beyond the circle. The other is a Maltese-type cross which is ringed and poorly executed. A portion of a possible incised cross can be seen at one extremity of the stone. (PRIA 61C, 102, figs 1, 3 and 17). One of three cross-inscribed stones situated in the porch of the nineteenth-century Protestant church (see also LH018-064005- and LH018-064010-).
The above description is derived from 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: 11 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.