Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Cong North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cong North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54088, -9.28607
- SMR number
- MA120-053006-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a traffic island in Cong village. Cross-base (L 0.91m; H 0.41m; Wth 0.77m) rests on modern concentric limestone steps (H 0.54m). A 19th century cross shaft is set into an early medieval cross-base. Base is inscribed in relief and reads in medieval Gaelic OR DO NIAHOL AG (us) DO GILLIBARD O'DUBHTAIGH RAIBIH ABAIDDE AGT CUNGA 'A prayer for Niahol (Nicol) and for Gillebard (Gilbert) O'Dubthaigh (O'Duffy) who were Abbots of Cong'. (Wilde 1872, 175).
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 631.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.