Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross (present location)
Newtown (navan Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (navan Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55754, -6.76862
- SMR number
- ME036-076----
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
Harbison (1997, 171-6) identified a fragment of a High cross (ME019-111----) built into the stonework of St Patrick's church (ME019-060002-) on the Hill of Slane, and it was moved to the OPW depot at Newtown Trim in 1994. The interlace panel has been compared with that on crosses at Clonmacnoise and Kells suggesting a date of c. 950-1000 (Seaver and Brady 2011).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June 2015
References
Seaver, M. and Brady, C. 2011 Hill of Slane Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide No. 55
Harbison, P. 1997 A shaft-fragment from Slane, Co. Meath, and other high cross discoveries. In C. Manning (ed.), Dublin and beyond the Pale: essays in honour of Paddy Healy, 171-6. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.