Cross - Wayside cross

The National Monuments Service's description

On top of roadside field boundary (road 2.5m below), on the NW side of tertiary road running NE-SW. An ecclesiastical enclosure (TS062-027----) lies c. 150m to the NW. A cross base (H 1.05m) with chamfered edges around the top, which is roughly square in plan (dims. 0.46m NE-SW; 0.5m NW-SE) with a socket (Wth 0.19m; D 0.16m) in the top, the NW side of which is missing. The SE side (H 1.05m) of the base is intact, together with a short return on the NE side (H 0.81m) and the SW angle (H 0.98m), while a large portion of the NW side (H 0.55m) is missing. The base broadens out slightly on the SE side, approximately half way (0.53m) from top. There is a large sub-trapezoidal flag stone (0.89m x 0.52m x 0.19m) lying flat at the base on the NE side and a smaller stone on the SW side. Crawford (1907, 308) describes this a 'a medieval cut-stone pedestal, with a socket in the top, evidently part of a medieval roadside monument' and Reynolds (1975, 86) refers to it as the 'base of a medieval wayside cross'. The cross was apparently removed by a Protestant lady from Fethard in the 1930s (Myles pers. comm. 25 March 2010), the current location of which is unknown. On the 1st (1840) ed. OS map it is indicated as 'Crushshuvaunhenry' which is a anglicized version of the 'Crois Shiobhán Henry' and translates as 'Siobhán Henry's cross'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 30 November 2015

References

Reynolds, M. 1975 A preliminary report on monuments of archaeological interest in Tipperary South Riding. Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.

Crawford, H.S. 1907 Ancient monuments on the new Ordnance maps. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 308.