Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Brockagh, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brockagh
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.01049, -6.32430
- SMR number
- WI023-028013-
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). Healy No. 203, (Healy 1972, 65). 'Found at Reefert (church:WI023-028001-) and placed in St Kevin's Church (WI023-028009----) 21-05-1971.' Described by Healy (1972, 65) as a ‘Latin ringed cross of mica schist 0.87m x 0.38m x 0.05m thick. The shaft and head are expanded. At the centre of the crossing there is a lightly incised circle in which there is a single-line Greek cross, slightly tilted from the vertical. The spaces enclosed by the ring and limbs of the cross are slightly sunk(½cm) There is a tenon at the bottom of the shaft 0.16m wide’.
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 Unpublished OPW report, 1972.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 Unpublished OPW report.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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.