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Cross - High cross

Killary, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Killary, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killary
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Latest-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Coordinates
53.78978, -6.66621
SMR number
ME012-020003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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

The decorated shaft of a high cross (dims 0.4m x 0.26m; H 1.3m) and its subcircular base (diam. 1.3m) are NW of Killary church (ME012-020----). From the bottom the decorative panels on the E face are: Adam and Eve, Noah’s ark, the sacrifice of Isaac and Daniel in the lions’ den, while the W face has the annunciation to shepherds, the baptism of Christ, the adoration of the Magi and the marriage feast at Cana. The N and S faces are decorated largely with interlace but there are two portraits of David (?) on the N side. (Crawford 1926, 2-3; Harbison 1992, 1, 124-5)

See attached views from SW (001) from NE (005) and SE (13).
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.

Crawford, H.S. 1923 A descriptive list of Irish shrines and reliquaries. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 53, 74-93.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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