Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monasterboice
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77791, -6.41752
- SMR number
- LH021-062019-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 cross shaft (H 1.75m; Wth 0.48m; T 0.34m) is beside the N cross (LH021-062009-). (Harbison 1992, 152-3; No 178)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 July 2012
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
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