Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Portloman, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portloman
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57125, -7.40887
- SMR number
- WM011-145003-
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
Described in 1980 as 'Almost 6m west of the west wall of the ruin (WM011-145----) is a small broken cross (H 0.9m; Wth c. 0.22m; T 0.12m) with a solid ring. The cross is of limestone and bears no inscription. The workmanship suggests a late medieval date at the earliest' (SMR file) the cross is located to the W of a medieval church ruins (WM011-145----) standing inside a ciruclar shaped graveyard (WM011-145004-) with bowl-barrow (WM011-144----) 220m to W.
See attached rough sketch of cross drawn in 1980.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 June 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.