Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Inishkeen Glebe, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishkeen Glebe
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 54.00312, -6.57992
- SMR number
- MO029-029----
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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
Described on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map in gothic lettering as a 'Stone Cross'. It is built into the N-facing boundary wall at the main junction in Inishkeen village. It is a black painted cross (H 1.2m; span 0.64m) with the following inscription in gold across the head, transom and shaft 'IHS This cross was erected by Captain Coll MacMahon as a memorial of himself and his family & desires of prayeres of all the faithfull christians Sept the 2D Anno Domini 1729'. A bird with leaves around it, fills the lower part of the shaft. (Ua Cuinn 1908, 83)
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
References
Ua Cuinn, S. 1908 Two memorial wayside crosses. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 2, No. 1, 83-4.
Nearby in the register
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.