Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Drakestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drakestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.77483, -6.74191
- SMR number
- ME012-023----
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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
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope c. 10m from a N-S road and c. 150m WSW of Drakestown church site (ME012-024----). A slab (H c. 0.9m; Wth c. 0.2m; T c. 0.1m) with an incised ringed cross is set up on a masonry pier. (Davies 1941)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 11 December, 2014
References
Davies, O. 1941 Miscellanea: Drakestown graveyard, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 71, 64-6.
Nearby in the register
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.