Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Tristernagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristernagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross (Socket of)
- Coordinates
- 53.59729, -7.48851
- SMR number
- WM011-051002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Only the base of a cross survives standing in SW quadrant of graveyard (WM011-051001-). Unable to locate cross base described in 1981 as the broken base of a cross standing SW of church (WM011-051----) on a low mound. The rectangular shaped limestone base (dims. 1.05m x 1.13m) with bevelled edge has a central rectangular shaped socket (dims. 0.27m x 0.17m x D 0.1m) on its upper surface which supported the shaft of a cross (SMR File 18/06/1981). Depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘Site of Cross’ in W quadrant of graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 13 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.