Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54959, -6.74461
- SMR number
- ME037-010002-
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
Wilde (1850, 88) mentions a cross in the graveyard of Scurlockstown parish church (ME037-010----), and a disc-headed cross (visible H 0.3m; span 0.52m; T 0.13-0.16m) is almost buried c. 15m S of the SW angle of the church.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 March, 2015
References
Wilde, W. 1850 The beauties of the Boyne and its tributary, the Blackwater (2nd ed). Dublin. McGlashan.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.