Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Termon cross
Kilcoursey, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoursey
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Termon Cross (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.34732, -7.60644
- SMR number
- OF008-010----
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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
No evidence of any cross in the area marked on the 6 inch OS 6-inch map. This cross has long since dissappeared as Davies recalls in the ITA survey
of 1942.
Described in 1942 as 'Ths site of the cross, which has disappeared was at or close to the boundary of Kilbride Td. The road from Clara to Kilbride was sunk deep through the hill at the famine time, and the cross may then have disappeared. A small mound (OF008-057) on the S side of road has some superstitions attached, but the site was probably on N side, as shown on OS The tradition of the cross is preserved in that funerals to Kilbride stop at this point on the road' (ITA Survey 1942).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house nunnery - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.