Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Church Island (lough Owel), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island (lough Owel)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56840, -7.37171
- SMR number
- WM012-167003-
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
Situated on Church Island in Lough Owel. Lying with some stones to the NW of the church (WM012-167---) is a holed stone with a square perforation (dims. 0.12m x 0.13m), probably the socket stone or the base of a stone cross.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.