Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Castlekeeran, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlekeeran
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.74107, -6.95434
- SMR number
- ME016-006001-
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
Three sandstone high crosses that are rather plain apart from roll mouldings, the base of another, a cross-slab and an ogham stone are displayed in the graveyard (ME016-006007-) of the early monastery of Diseart Chiaran (ME016-006----) (O'Connell 1957). The north cross (H 2.62m; Wth 1.1m) is ringed and has a shaft (0.53m x 0.47m) on a pyramidal base (dims at base 1.04m x 1m; H 0.75m). There is interlace at the ends of the arms and on the E face of the ring. (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 41-2)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 June, 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.
O'Connell, P. 1957 Castle Kieran. Ríocht na Mídhe, 1, 3, 17-33.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.