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Cross (present location)

Rathglass (Tireragh By., Castleconor West ED), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross (present location), Rathglass, County Sligo, 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
Rathglass (Tireragh By., Castleconor West ED)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.16982, -9.06156
SMR number
SL022-014002-

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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)
  • 1841 · 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

In a modern Catholic church at Corbally. Cross constructed from a single block of stone (H 0.76m; max. Wth. at arms. 0.42m; T 0.14-0.16m) with carvings in relief on both faces, and a short tang (D 0.05m) at the base of the cross. On one side is a depiction of the crucifixion. The carving of the figure of Christ shows simplified facial features and a loin cloth. Nails are shown piercing each hand and a single nail pierces the overlapping feet. Beneath the feet is a skull. On the other side of the cross is a depiction of a ladder, which extends the full length of the cross, and hammer and tongs, which are carved on one arm of the cross. The original location (SL0016-071----) of the cross is said to be in Carrowcardin townland where a church, marked 'R. C. Chapel' is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (Mary Timoney 1989, pers. comm.).

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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