Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Cloonburren, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonburren
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.31468, -8.05799
- SMR number
- RO056-005----
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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 S side of an NW-SE public road in a flat-bottomed SW-NE valley which opens out to a bog at N. Called the Cross of Cairbre Crom by J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 24-5), it may have been a wayside cross beside a togher connecting Clonburren (RO056-007001-) with a higher ridge to the W at Faltia. A single limestone piece with an octagonal cross-section (dims 0.3m x 0.3m; L 0.8m) has an unserviceable circular tennon at one end. A further portion (RO056-007005-) is now at Clonburren church (RO056-007001-). (Crawford 1907, 217)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 326-34.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Religious house nunnery - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.