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Cross - Wayside cross

Skeavally, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Wayside cross, Skeavally, 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
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-

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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 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

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

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