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Corrasluastia, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, Corrasluastia, 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
Corrasluastia
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73006, -8.68345
SMR number
RO025-028001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

At the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. A small Latin cross of limestone (visible H 0.5m; Span 0.24m; T 0.1m) with one arm missing has a raised boss (diam. 0.16m) at the centre. It is standing on a grass-covered cairn (RO025-028003-) (diam. 1.7m E-W; 1.5m N-S; H 0.8m). Standing stone (RO025-028002-) is c. 50m to the W. (Crawford 1918, 177)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Crawford, H.S. 1918 Supplementary list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 48, 174-9.

Nearby in the register

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

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