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Cross - Wayside cross

Mote Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Wayside cross, Mote Demesne, 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
Mote Demesne
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cross
Latest-edition OS map
Cross
Coordinates
53.58717, -8.15244
SMR number
RO042-016005-

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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

At the top of a NW-facing slope and outside the ecclesiastical enclosure (RO042-016007-) to the SE. A cross (dims 0.21m x 0.21m; H 1.34m) with the name 'Edm Kely' and the date 1633 (Siggins 1986b, 34), although the date has been read as 1639 (Anon. 1888-91, 485). The base of a second cross (RO042-016006-) is nearby.

See the attached image taken from the S.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28th September, 2010

References

Siggins, A. 1986b Some late medieval crosses in county Roscommon. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 1, 33-5.

Anon. 1888-91 Church of Kilmaine. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. Vol. 1, 485.

Nearby in the register

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

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