Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Killary, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killary
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Socket of Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Socket of Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.78993, -6.66551
- SMR number
- ME012-020002-
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
The base (dims 0.72m; x 0.6m; H 0.4m) with edge mouldings and a fragment from the centre of a high cross are at the N corner of the graveyard of Killary church (ME012-020----). Two fragments with decorated panels that were found in the graveyard and are now in the National Museum of Ireland may have been from this cross (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 125).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 August, 2014
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
Nearby in the register
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.