Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Sarsfieldstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sarsfieldstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.65414, -6.26231
- SMR number
- ME028-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
Late-fifteenth-century memorial cross erected to Christopher Barnwell. Fragment of shaft with figure sculpture in false relief and inscription (PRIA 1984, 102-3). Inscription on base belongs with that on stones at Bellowstown (ME027-007001-) (RMAHS 1984, 114-6).
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.