Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross (present location)
Commons (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65855, -6.40885
- SMR number
- ME027-023----
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
from King (1984, 106-7) This cross was originally a wayside monument on the Downstown road after which it served as a gable cross on the church in Duleek. In 1969 it was set up on the left-had side of the road as one enters the village of Duleek from Drogheda. It was damaged in 1981 and re-erected in 1982 by the Duleek Historical Society about 0.5kmn nearer Drogheda on the same side of the road. The material is fossiliferous limestone. Dims of base 0.21m x 0.13m; H 1.45m; Wth 0.74m.
This is a Latin cross, rectangular in section, with splayed ends on the arms and upper shaft. It is decorated on the north and south faces and the edges of the shaft are chamfered. The base is modern. The W and E sides have no decoration. The N has the following inscription in false relief using Gothic lettering with Roman Capitals: HIS / PRAY FOR THE SOULES OF THO / MASSINA BERFORD FIRST EIFE / TO BERT / HELMEME / MOUR OF / DOWAN / STOWENE / WHO DIE / D THE 17 / OF DEC / EMBER 1635. The S side has an all-over pattern of shallow grooved lines. This cross is dated by its inscription to 1635.
Cogan (1862-70, 2, 232)
See the attached image.
Date of upload: 7 August, 2014
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
King, H. 1984 Late medieval crosses in County Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 84C, 79-115.
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