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Cross - Wayside cross

Robinstown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - Wayside cross, Robinstown Lower, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Robinstown Lower
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cross (Remains of)
Coordinates
53.71733, -7.29479
SMR number
WM003-042----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Described in 1928 as 'A plain square socket stone, the cross belonging to which is missing. It is placed at the angle of a lane three quarters of a mile (1km ) N of Rathgarve Church (WM003-068----)' (Crawford 1928, 57, no. 4). The cross is situated on the townland boundary between Robinstown Lower, Ballycomoyle and Robinstown Upper.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 June 2010

References

Crawford, H. S. 1928 List of the Wayside Crosses near Fore, County Westmeath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 58, 57-62.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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