Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Wayside cross
Ben,clonnageeragh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ben,clonnageeragh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Feighins Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Feighins Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.69725, -7.21361
- SMR number
- WM004-009----
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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
Described in 1928 as 'This is marked on the Ordnance map as St. Fechin's Cross, but nothing now remains except a small rectangular platform of stones and clay. It is on the south side of the road to Oldcastle near the county boundary, 1 and a half miles N.E. of Fore' (Crawford 1928, 60-1, no. 12). Described in 1980 as 'Only the base of this cross survives. It is a low platform (dims. 2.2m NE-SW x 1.4m NW-SE; H 0.55m) of earth and grass covered stones built on a low natural rise or ridge. It is on the S side of a modern roadway just inside the fence. The field fence shown just S and SE of the cross on the 1914 ed. OS 6-inch map has been removed' (SMR file). The cross is only 150m W of the boundary with County Meath.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.