Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Knock, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.76288, -6.68037
- SMR number
- ME012-033002-
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
Within the graveyard (ME012-033001-). The head of a small stone cross (H 0.65m; Wth 0.48) with a solid ring and interlace decoration is protruding from the ground at the NE angle of the graveyard. Portion of the shaft (0.26m x 0.16m) is visible. (Crawford 1926, 3; Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 135, No. 164)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 23 May, 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. 1926 The early crosses of east and west Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 56, 1-10.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.