Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Skeavally, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeavally
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross (Remains of)
- Coordinates
- 53.44181, -8.16668
- SMR number
- RO048-117001-
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 rise at the W side of S-N road (RO048-097003-) which is at the summit of a slight col where the road begins to descend to the N. Portion of the shaft (dims 0.26m x 0.26m; H 0.44m) and head of a Latin cross (H 0.74m; Span 0.62m; max. T 0.14m) in limestone together with a stone surround (dims 2.65m x 2.65m). The cross-head has an inscription in false relief which is now illegible but which is thought to commemorate Thady Keogh who died in 1734 (Moore 1978, 64; Siggins 1988, 58).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Siggins, A. 1988 Some early Christian slabs from Fuerty and Clontuskert. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 55-9.
Moore, A. 1978 MacKeoghs of Moyfin. (Part 2) Journal of the Old Athlone Society 2 (5), 56-70.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.