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Cross - High cross

Ballinatray Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Ballinatray Lower, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinatray Lower
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Coordinates
52.64875, -6.23972
SMR number
WX012-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the outer edge of a wooded shelf overlooking the W-E Owenavorragh Stream, which is c. 70m to the N, and c. 1km from the sea-shore. A stone patio with benches is laid out around it, and paths lead through the wood to it from a carpark to the E. This is a shale Latin cross (H 2.25m; T 0.15m) with one broken arm (Wth 1.03m). There is an incised cross in a circle (diam. 0.46m) at the intersection of the arms on both faces. (deVal 1970, 25; Ranson 1948, 102-03; Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 23)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 13 April, 2012.

References

Ranson, Rev. J. 1948 Ancient crosses in the barony of Ballaghkeen. The Past, vol. 4, 97-107.

Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.

De Val, S. 1970 The high crosses of Ireland. Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, vol. 3, 21-5.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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