Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Ballysize Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysize Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.10750, -6.58648
- SMR number
- WI009-007002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Unringed granite cross (H. 1.22m) set in a square socket in a large natural granite slab known locally as 'the Bishop's Grave'. The extremities of the cross are damaged. Curved rebates occur on both faces of the shaft immediately beneath the arms and there is an equal armed cross within a circle inscribed on the lower E side of the shaft. The cross stands at the SW side of a graveyard (WI009-007001-). (Hawkes 1938, 156-7)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 13 December 2012
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 104/1940).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.