Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Brockagh, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brockagh
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trinity Church (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.01058, -6.32032
- SMR number
- WI023-014002-
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
This slab forms the top step of the style into the churchyard' at Trinity Church (WI023-014001-). The slab lies to the NW of the church and the inscised cross has been almost totally worn away by the passage of feet on it. Described by Healy (1972, 88) as a ‘large slab of mica-schist 1.48m x 0.5m x 0.18m thick. It has a rebate down one edge 3.5cm deep, and a short length of a similar rebate on the other edge. There is a small single line Greek cross incised near one end. There is said to be a similar one on the other side. This slab forms the top step of the stile into the churchyard (WI023-014005-).
Date of upload: 29 November 2012
See linked document with drawing from Patrick Healy, Supplementary survey of ancient monuments at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished OPW report, 1972.
References
Healy, P. 1972 Supplementary survey of ancient monuments at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished OPW report.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.