Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Fletcherstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fletcherstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73840, -6.74354
- SMR number
- ME018-001----
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
This cross-base was situated on a mound at the SE side of a NE-SW public road in a gently undulating landscape. Cogan (1862-70, 2, 284) notes that it 'had been broken in twain.' The base is undecorated, roughly rectangular and pyramidal-shaped (dims of top 0.73-0.78m; dims of base 0.8-0.87m; H 0.35m) with a small chamfer at the top and a rectangular socket (dims 0.23m x 0.2m; D 0.2m) in the centre. The mound and cross-base were disturbed in 2004 when human remains were uncovered representing at least a middle-aged male: this was dated to AD 1486-1650 (King 2010, 146-151: see ME018-001001-). A rescue excavation (Licence No. 04E1028) revealed a stony platform (c. 2m sq.) which had formed a foundation for the cross base (Murphy 2007).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In this instance the entry has been changed in the light of further work.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 October 2014
References
King, H. 2010 'More questions than answers:a damaged cross base and a disarticulated burial' in Mary Davies, Una MacConville and gabriel Cooney(eds.) A Grand Gallimaufry: Collected in honour of Nick Maxwell, 146-51.
Murphy, Deirdre 2007 Fletcherstown. Cross base. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 312, No. 1240. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.