Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Knockmaon, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmaon
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tomb Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09115, -7.72548
- SMR number
- WA030-042003-
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
Situated at the S foot of the hillock on which Knockmaon castle (WA030-042001-) stands, and c. 90m E of the N-S Brickey River. It was marked 'Tomb stone' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A granite slab (min. dims. 2.25m x 0.7m; T 0.25m) with a raised ringed cross at the centre of one side, possibly from an altar, was c. 40m N of the church, but it was moved to the tower house (WA030-006001-) at Cappagh (Power 1898a, 90-1; O'Connell-Redmond 1918, 102).
O'Connell-Redmond, G. (1918) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51.
Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.