Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Rosserk, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosserk
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16345, -9.17558
- SMR number
- MA022-079----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
In pasture, located in a large rectangular field of flat, rush-grown damp peaty ground.
A cross inscribed stone was noted at roughly this location by a Dr. Jackson, probably in the mid-20th century. His undated report to the National Museum describes it as a boulder (L 1.5m; Wth 1m; H 0.65m) embedded in boggy ground, and states that ‘There are three crosses and one right half of a cross. The topmost cross is on a small flat ‘platform’ and to the left of it is a small saucer (diam. 65m) in the centre of which is a small hole of 2cm diameter and 5.6cm deep.’
The stone was not located when the area was inspected in 1995 and 2019.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 May 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.