Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Ogulla, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ogulla
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77752, -8.27603
- SMR number
- RO022-106005-
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
The holy well of Ogulla (RO022-106003-) is overlooked by a large tree where the head of a high cross (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 185; Kelly 1993, 154-6), now in NMI but replaced by a replica (Kelly 1994), is kept. It consists of the crux (dims c 0.8m x 0.8m; T 0.3m) with a large boss on one face and a plainly-carved head on the other.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Kelly, D. 1993 Some remains of high crosses in the west of Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 123, 152-63.
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
Kelly, D. 1994 Miscellanea: Cross at Ogulla, County Roscommon. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 124, 213
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.