Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Termonfeckin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termonfeckin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.76143, -6.27006
- SMR number
- LH022-041003-
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
Composed of sandstone with ringed head, house-shaped shrine on head, decorated shaft and undecorated semi-spherical base. The E face of the shaft has two badly executed panels of interlacing, the upper one with snakes and dragon in combat. The head has a badly executed Crucifixion with winged figure above. The W side has Christ in Glory, while the panels on the shaft have interlace and patterns of angular fret and knot. The N and S faces have similar panels of interlace and spiral ornament. The base of the cross is almost certainly of fairly recent origin. Located in graveyard (LH022-041001-).
See the attached view of the w face
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: 17 July 2007
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.
Nearby in the register
- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.