Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross (present location)
Knockarigg Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockarigg Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98792, -6.73481
- SMR number
- WI020-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
Limestone 17th-century wayside cross-shaft of the O'Toole family (H 0.78m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.15m), now in the porch of Knockarigg House. The inscriptions, on two opposite faces, read-'... LL O'TOOLEOF CNOCKIRGG AND HIS WIFE IOANE CULLEN PRA ... S ...' and '... O BOTH OURE SOULES FOR AS YOU ARE SOE WEARE WEE AND AS [WEE AR] E SOE SHALL YOU [BEE]'. One of the remaining faces is blank and the other depicts the Instruments of the Passion. (Fitzgerald 1903-5, 249-50)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.