Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross (present location)
Monea, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monea
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95095, -7.72753
- SMR number
- WA040-017----
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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
According to Power (1952, 83) a stone described as a cross-base "four foot six inches by two feet three inches (dims. c. 1.4m x c. 0.7m)" was outside Monea House. It was known as Cloch a Datha - the Stone of the dye, which was used in dying cloth. This location is not known, but the description matches the cross-base now in Ardmore village. This is a conglomerate stone (dims. 1.05m x 0.7m; H c. 0.55m) with a socket (dims. 0.42 x 0.32m D 0.5m). It was originally located (WA040-013----) c. 200m to the SE on the opposite side of the street from the Church of Ireland church (FitzGerald 1856-7, 43-4; Power 1932c, 18).
FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 287-91.
Power, Rev. P. (1907d) Place names of the Decies. WAJ. 10, 14- ?, 88-134, 184-240, 263-310.
Power, Rev. P. (1932c) Ardmore; its founder and early Christian monuments. Catholic Truth Society. Dublin
Date of upload: 10th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.