Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Crosspatrick, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crosspatrick
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Cross
- Coordinates
- 54.19696, -9.20190
- SMR number
- MA022-044001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a pasture field, bordered to N by a minor road; there is a church (MA022-043001-) and graveyard (MA022-043002-) c. 30m to N on the opposite side of the road.
This cross-inscribed stone is named ‘St. Patrick’s Cross’ on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a roughly rectangular slab (0.43m x 0.37m; T 0.009m) with rounded corners, on one surface of which is the incised outline of a cross. A shallow groove (Wth c. 2-2.5cm) forms the vertical and horizontal arms of the cross, which are roughly equal in length and extend almost the full width and height of the slab. The terminal of each arm expands slightly into a roughly circular hollow (diam. 3.5-4cm). The cross is now partly eroded and difficult to discern, although the incised grooves can still be felt/traced with one's finger.
The slab lies horizontally on the ground surface, partly embedded in the sod. Adjacent to it at the W there is an inscribed stone (MA022-044002-). A remnant of an old field bank lies immediately to E of the two stones. There is a ringbarrow (MA022-045----) in the same field 70m to SE.
Attached images:
MA022-044001-_01.JPG Ranging rod lies on low bank immediately to E (at left) of the cross-inscribed stone. An inscribed stone (MA022-044002-) lies immediately to W (at right).
MA022-044001-_02.JPG Incised grooves of cross are barely discernible
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.