Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Dragoonhill, County Wicklow, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.