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Cross - High cross

Cloonshanville, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Cloonshanville, 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
Cloonshanville
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Latest-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Coordinates
53.86596, -8.39456
SMR number
RO015-029----

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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 a slight rise in a level landscape. A latin cross composed of a single piece of sandstone (visible H 3.2m; breadth of arms 0.7m; T 0.2m; Wth of shaft 0.42-0.49m) with a boss at the junction of the arms on the E and W faces widens out at the base (Wth of shaft 0.67m) and was supported in a shallow socket in the bedrock by stone wedges when it was excavated (Sweetman 1981-2) and straightened (total H 3.9m). Cloonshanville abbey (RO-015-03001-) is c. 300m to the NE. (Crawford 1907, 214-5; Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 59)

This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 608

See the attached view of the E face taken from the NE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 326-34.

Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.

Sweetman, D. 1981-2 Archaeological excavation at the cross of Cloonshanville, Co. Roscommon. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 38, 83-7.

Nearby in the register

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

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