Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Coollusty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coollusty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56044, -8.23706
- SMR number
- RO041-077002-
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 a gentle N-facing slope and on the S side of the Athleague-Athlone road (R362). This is part of the wayside cross (RO041-077001-). An inscribed limestone slab with the name 'Kelly' and the date 1643 was kept at the cross but was moved to a nearby house (RO041-112----). (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
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 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.