Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross (present location)
Rathglass (tireragh By., Castleconor West Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.