Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Ballintober, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09904, -6.56456
- SMR number
- WI010-022----
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
Described by Corlett (2011, 26-8) as lying in an area of glacially strewn granite boulders overlooking Valleymount and the Poulaphuca Reservoir to the E. A plain, unfinished and very large prostrate cross (H 5.1m; Wth of arms c. 2.2m; Wth of shaft 0.67m; T of shaft 0.6m) was carved on the flat but broke, snapping just below the head, presumably when being turned to complete the carving of the underside. Its closest parallels are St Mark's Cross at Burgage More (WI005-047001-) and St Kevin's Cross at Glendalough (WI023-008013-). (Price 1953, 209)
Compiler: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 23 June 2011
References
Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. (comp). 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Wicklow. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Price, L. 1953 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. IV - The barony of Talbotstown Lower. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (185-280).
Corlett, C. 2011 The abandoned cross at Ballintubber, Hollywood, Co. Wicklow. Archaeology Ireland 25, (2), 26-28.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.