Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Holywell Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Holywell Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74668, -8.80321
- SMR number
- MA103-003003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Located at a holy well (MA103-003001-) known as St. Patrick’s Well.
This stone cross stands upright on a low stony rise that curves around the N side of the well. The cross (H 0.64m; Wth across arms 0.29m) is rather crudely shaped with short stubby arms that protrude no more than a few centimeters from the shaft (Wth 0.19m; T 0.12m). The top of the shaft rises 0.08m above the arms. The cross leans to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.