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
- 53.09096, -6.59598
- SMR number
- WI009-017007-
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
In a graveyard (WI009-017003-), just SSW of a church (WI009-017002-) An earthfast, slightly tapering, granite stone (dims. H 0.6m; Wth 0.37-0.45m; T 0.2m) carries an incised Latin cross with expanded terminals. (Corlett 2003, 99-100)
Compiled by: 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.