Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Lakill And Moortown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lakill And Moortown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monument
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monument
- Coordinates
- 53.68606, -7.24549
- SMR number
- WM003-102----
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
Wayside cross (WM003-097----) located 340m to the W. Depicted as ‘Monument’ on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Described in 1983 as, ‘no visible trace of any monument or archaeological feature can be seen on the roadside. A high earthen bank forms the roadside boundary’ (SMR File 1983).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 14 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.