Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Churchyard cross
Monknewtown, County Meath, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.