Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Mote Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.