Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Brittas, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81639, -6.77011
- SMR number
- ME005-089001-
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
Set upright in the centre of the rath (ME005-089----) is a crudely made stone cross with a disc head (H 0.47m; span 0.0.37m). It has a cross in a circle inscribed with in single lines on one side, but with a double vertical line.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 April, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.