Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Crossmoyle, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crossmoyle
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 54.17947, -7.23255
- SMR number
- MO011-010005-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the Diamond, original location is believed to have been close to the round tower (MO011-010002-). Composed of two separate parts which didn't originally belong together. Depictions of Adam and Eve and the Sacrifice of Isaac and Daniel in the Den of Lions on W face while E face displays illustrations of the Adoration of the Magi, the Marriage Feast of Cana, the Multiplication of the Loves and Fishes and the Crucifixion. The two sides are decorated with geometric designs and bosses. (Harbison 1992, 45-7; Nos 48/49; figs 126-7)
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 112
See the attached views _1 from SE; _2 from NW; _3 Christ in Glory on the S face; _4 Daniel in the Lion's den
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.