Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Churchyard cross
Rathmore, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64330, -6.87240
- SMR number
- ME024-017002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Outside the N wall of Rathmore church (ME024-017001-) is a cross that was erected at the behest of Sir Christopher Plunkett and his wife, Katherine Preston, in 1519. It consists of the base (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; H 0.33m) with a Latin inscription and part of the lower shaft (dims 0.22m x 0.15m; H 0.44m) with three figures in niches, and part of the upper shaft (dims 0.32m x 0.2m; H 0.32m) with raised mouldings that might be from another cross (King 1984, 101-02). (FitzGerald 1908, 437-8; Leask 1933, 164)
See attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 June, 2014
References
King, H. 1984 Late medieval crosses in County Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 84C, 79-115.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1908. Rathmore (st Lawrence's church and burial ground). Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 7, 424-43.
Leask, H. G. 1933 Rathmore church, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63, 153-66.
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