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Cross (present location)

Monea, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross (present location), Monea, 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
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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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

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

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

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