Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Ahenny, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahenny
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41249, -7.39327
- SMR number
- TS079-007004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On an E-facing slope in undulating hilly terrain. A cross base is centrally placed within a square graveyard (TS079-007005-) defined by a stone wall. A later medieval church (TS079-007001-) is located c. 30m to the N. A high cross (TS079-007002-) is located to the NW and another to SW (TS079-007003-). The base (0.68m x 0.66m; H 0.2m) is all that remains of a high cross which was reputely stolen and lost at sea (Craig & Glin 1970, 8). The shaft for the cross is 0.23m x 0.29m with the S side broken away.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Craig, M. and Glin, The Knight of. 1970 Ireland observed: a handbook to the buildings and antiquities. Cork. Mercier Press.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.