Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Donaghmore (navan Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore (navan Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67046, -6.66213
- SMR number
- ME025-015004-
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
The damaged head of a sandstone high cross (H 0.63m; original Wth c. 0.45m), now in the National Museum of Ireland, is almost certainly that described by Wilde (1857, 1, 141-2) as being from Donaghmore. It has roll mouldings, the shaft was divided into panels, and interlace is confined to a knot at the crux and on the ring (Harbison 1992, 185).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 June, 2014
References
Harbison, P. 1992 Guide to the national and historic monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., Dublin.
Wilde, W.R. 1857 Catalogue of the antiquities of stone, earthen, and vegetable materials in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. M.H. Gill. Dublin.
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