Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Knockboy (decies Without Drum By., Seskinan Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockboy (decies Without Drum By., Seskinan Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19449, -7.68507
- SMR number
- WA013-034017-
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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
A possible cross-inscribed stone with two incised crosses described and photographed by Gordon W. Forsayeth (1913c, 341-2) in the graveyard of Knockboy church (WA013-034001-). He describes the stone as an oblong grave-marker of slaty sandstone (Wth 0.25m [10in]; H 0.53m [21in]; T 0.07m [3in]) with two T-shaped crosses deeply inscribed on one face. The smaller cross had a circle over it. Other deeply incised lines were thought not to be ogham as they are curved and do not extend to the edge of the stone. An accompanying photograph shows two possible very crudely inscribed crosses and a circle. Listed in the SMR (1988) as two separate crosses.
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 19 March 2013
References
Forsayeth, G.W. 1913c An inscribed slab. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 3, 341-2.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.