Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Carrowcrin (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcrin (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66032, -8.10932
- SMR number
- RO040-013001-
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 the E bank of a N-S stream and just N of an E-W road. A fragment of a sandstone cross-shaft (dims 0.19m x 0.16m; H 1m) with a tennon at the lower end has a fragmentary inscription with the date 1689. Also part of the polygonal head of a cross (dims 0.7m x 0.7m; T 0.16m) with an inscription which is illegible, apart from the date 1674. (Siggins 1986b, 34)
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
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.