Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Cloonshanville, County Roscommon, Ireland
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----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.