Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Sevenchurches Or Camaderry, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sevenchurches Or Camaderry
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.01053, -6.32953
- SMR number
- WI023-003011-
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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
Located 3.6m W of SW corner of nave of St Mary's Church (WI023-003001-) (Leask 1950, fig. 4f, 15). Described by Healy (1972, 16) as a ‘rough cross of mica-schist over 0.76m x 0.46m wide x 0.06m thick. The arms are very short’. Described by Leask (1950, 43) as a ‘rough cross about 1 foot 10 inches [0.55m] high, fixed in a stone slab socket. The arms expand slightly and the shaft broadens irregularly. It is 10 feet [3m] W. of the church’.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 December 2012
See linked document with drawing of slab taken from Robert Cochrane Historical and Descriptive Notes with Ground Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Ecclesiastical Remains at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Extract from the Eightieth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1911-12. Dublin, 1925.
References
Healy, P. 1972 Supplementary survey of ancient monuments at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished OPW report.
Leask, H.G. 1950 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow: national monuments vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.