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Cross-inscribed stone (present location)

Ardcarn (Boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed stone (present location), Ardcarn, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardcarn (Boyle By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.96789, -8.20494
SMR number
RO006-103020-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the E-facing slope of Ardcarn Hill. A new graveyard (dims c. 100m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) extending SW from the old one (RO006-103004-) and defined by masonry walls was built by 1914 and it contains the cross-inscribed stone (RO006-103006-) and a second cross-inscribed stone identified by Mary B. Timoney in 2015. This slab (dims 0.54m x 0.5m; T 0.15m) has an incised latin cross (H 0.21m; Span 0.18m) created by a wide stroke (Wth 1.4cm). The cross was taken from an island in Lough Key c. 1990, but it is not known which one.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

See the attached image courtesy of Mary B. Timoney

Date of revised upload: 28 January, 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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