Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Monknewtown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monknewtown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71705, -6.46950
- SMR number
- ME019-019005-
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 cupboard on the N wall of Monknewtown parish church (ME019-019----) is a small sandstone disc-headed cross (dims 0.27m x 0.26m; T 0.09m) with short arms (L c. 6cm; Wth 8.5cm) and arc-shaped depressions in the disc to indicate the separation of the ring on each side.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 June, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.