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Cross - Wayside cross

Commeen (Athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Wayside cross, Commeen, 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
Commeen (Athlone South By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cross
Coordinates
53.45669, -8.17696
SMR number
RO047-061----

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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

On a low NNE-SSW ridge in an undulating landscape, c. 170m S of Dysart church (RO047-060001-). Limestone cross facing NNW and SSE with a solid ring head (dims of shaft 0.3m x 0.24m; total H 1.75m), chamfered edges, an incised inscription commemorating Phelim and Sara O'Conor dated 1639, and a hand holding a hurley or club in relief on the NNW face. The shaft is set in a limestone block (dims 0.85m x 0.83m; H 0.35m) with chamfered edges which is set on a mortared limestone plinth (dims 1.4m x 1.4m) and which originally had three stages. (Siggins 1986b, 35)

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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

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

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