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Cross - High cross

Ballynaguilkee Lower, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Ballynaguilkee Lower, County Waterford, 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
Ballynaguilkee Lower
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.19650, -7.73385
SMR number
WA013-023002-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in pasture on level ground at the top of an E-facing slope down to the N-S Finisk River c. 300m to the SE. The base of a stone cross (dims. c. 0.35m x 0.25m; H c. 0.23m) with interlace and fret patterns and part of the shaft, which were recorded at the church site (WA013-023001-) by Du Noyer, are now missing (Harbison 1992a, 24)

Harbison, P. (1992a) The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 November 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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