Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Kilmurry North (rathdown By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry North (rathdown By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI008-029----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838-40) record that 'about a furlong north of this Green on the old road from (to) Kilmacannoge, on the Kilmurry side of the Stream that separates these two townlands, they show a spot on which stood a stone cross formerly, but at what time no one remembers. Opposite to this spot on the new road stands a stone with a s small cross cut in it; cut and put up there when the new road was made for the purpose of keeping up the old custom of laying down the corpses when going to be buried' (O'Flanagan 1928, 19). The exact location of this is not known.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 05 February 2013
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.