Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Knockadangan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadangan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross (Remains of)
- Coordinates
- 53.57015, -8.20285
- SMR number
- RO041-052----
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
Towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of a hill. The limestone shaft of a cross (dims 0.2m x 0.18m; H 1.74m) with chamfered edges and a slightly expanded head (H 0.42m). One end has a mortise. The head bears an inscription commemorating Con and Maire Kelly, dated 1638 (OS Name Books), 1688 (King 1985), or 1653 (Siggins 1986b, 34).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
King, H.A. 1985 Irish wayside and churchyard crosses 1600-1700. Post-Medieval Archaeology 19, 13-33.
Siggins, A. 1986b Some late medieval crosses in county Roscommon. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 1, 33-5.
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.