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Farrangarret, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, Farrangarret, 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
Farrangarret
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.95003, -7.72558
SMR number
WA040-013----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This cross-base is named as Cloch Daha, attributed to Daghda, King of the Tuatha Dé Dannan, and is described as lying on the roadside opposite the new Church of Ireland church in Ardmore, where it may have been a termon cross at the N edge of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WA040-008023-) around the churches of Ardmore. It is described as "two feet by eighteen inches" and to have a basin. It was the centre of a courtship ritual on Ash Wednesdays (FitzGerald, 1856-7, 43-4). It is now located c. 200m to the NW (WA040-017----), and has a different mythology (Power 1932c, 18; Power 1952, 83) associated with dying cloth. (Westropp 1903, 375)

FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 287-91.
Power, Rev. P. (1932c) Ardmore; its founder and early Christian monuments. Catholic Truth Society. Dublin
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.
Westropp, T. J. (1903) Notes on the antiquities of Ardmore. JRSAI, 33, 353-80.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 October, 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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