Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Commeen (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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)
See the attached view from the S
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.