Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Churchyard cross
Robertstown (kells Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Robertstown (kells Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.80377, -6.80780
- SMR number
- ME011-005001-
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
From King (1987, 305): Located on the N side of the lane as it enters the graveyard (ME011-005004-). Incomplete Latin cross from which the central section of the shaft is missing. It is decorated with a crucifixion, angel’s hed, an equal-armed cross set in a acircle and an inscription. The inscription dates the piece to 1685 and proclaims that it was erected in the reign of the SOVERAIN LORD KING JAMES THE SECOND BY THE GRACE OF GOD. (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 276) Dimensions: Current H 1.26m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.13m.
Date of upload: 9 July, 2014
References
King, H.A. 1987 Seventeenth-century effigial sculpture in the north Meath area. In E. Rynne (ed.), Figures from the past: studies on figurative art in Christian Ireland in honour of Helen M. Roe, 283-307. Dun Laoghaire. Glendale Press.
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.