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Cross - Churchyard cross

Monknewtown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Churchyard cross, Monknewtown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Monknewtown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cross
Coordinates
53.71699, -6.46945
SMR number
ME019-019004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

In the graveyard of Monknewtown (ME019-019001-) is a sandstone latin cross (H 1.3m; Wth of arms 0.49m) with a rectangular cross-section (0.15m x 0.15m) and roll-moulding at the angles. The E side is unadorned but the W side has a crucifixion in false relief with the sun and moon at the ends of the arms. On the stem a panel with a skull and cross-bones is over an inscription which has the date 1711. It has been transcribed (FitzGerald 1904) from Du Noyer's drawings as: THIS / CROSS / WAS ER / ECTED / BY THE / (REV)RN / FATHEr / PHILIP / REILY / ANNO / DOM / 1711

See the attached image of the cross from the SW

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of amended upload: 4 Septermber, 2014

References

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1904 Monknewtown Churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 6, 123.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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