Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Churchyard cross
Ballintemple, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintemple
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75405, -8.15054
- SMR number
- RO029-053004-
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
A fragment of the stem of a memorial cross (dims 0.23m x 0.17m; H 0.8m) dated 1628 (Siggins 1986b, 35) or 1605 is in the graveyard (RO029-053002-) of the parish church (RO029-053001-) of Cloonfinlough. The inscription reads: C:B / 1605 / COM.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Siggins, A. 1986b Some late medieval crosses in county Roscommon. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 1, 33-5.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.