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Cross - Wayside cross

Knockadangan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Wayside cross, Knockadangan, 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
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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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