Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Lockstown Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lockstown Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08007, -6.53059
- SMR number
- WI016-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a very gentle NW-facing slope at the northern end of a low ridge. Simple, possibly unfinished, granite cross (H 1.07m) cut from a boulder found in a field boundary c. 100m NW of a children's burial ground (WI016-003002-).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Decorated stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.