Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Kilquiggin, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquiggin
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 52.78677, -6.57671
- SMR number
- WI042-012----
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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
Situated on level ground 180m NW of a church site (WI042-031001-). Unpierced ringed granite cross-head (dims. 0.7m across arms; H 0.5m; T 0.16m) with a central boss on one face and a triskele in false relief on the other, lying beside a crude pyramidal granite cross-base. (Harbison 1992, 132)
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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 134/1940).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.