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Cross-inscribed stone

Dragoonhill, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed stone, Dragoonhill, County Wicklow, 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
Dragoonhill
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09124, -6.59614
SMR number
WI009-017006-

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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)
  • 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

In the NW corner of a graveyard (WI009-017003-), just NE of another cross-inscribed stone (WI009-017004-). An earthfast (but leaning sharply W) slightly tapering, granite stone (dims. H 0.8m; Wth 0.62-0.65m; T 0.17m) carries an incised Latin cross with expanded terminals on a narrow, incised shaft on its E face. (Corlett 2003, 99-100)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher

Date of upload: 13 December 2012

References

Corlett, C. 2003, The Hollywood Slabs – some late medieval grave slabs from west Wicklow and neighbouring Counties, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 133, 86-110.

Nearby in the register

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

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