Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Brockagh, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brockagh
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.01049, -6.32430
- SMR number
- WI023-028011-
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
Location: Stone Store, Visitor Centre (30 August 2005). Small portion of ringed head of cross (L 0.24m, max width 0.38m and 0.07m thick). Outline of wheel discernible on faces (Leask 1950, fig. 18g. 40-1). The shaft and base still stand at Reefert church (WI023-028001-) and have been designated no. WI023-028030-.
Date of upload: 20 December 2012
See linked document with drawing of cross 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
Leask, H.G. 1950 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow: national monuments vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Market cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.