Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Killary, County Meath, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.