Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Adamstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adamstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone Cross
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Abbans Cross
- Coordinates
- 52.39329, -6.72054
- SMR number
- WX031-023002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 a rise in a low-lying landscape. St Abban's cross, a Latin cross in green stone (H c. 3.8m; Wth 0.58m; T 0.2m), is set in a rectangular base (dims of top 0.8m x 0.8m) buried in the ground (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 9) and a decorated Romanesque fragment recorded from the graveyard (Leask 1955, vol. 1, 163) but no longer traceable are the only indications of the early church of St. Abán (WX031-023001-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 August, 2012
References
Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland: an iconographical and photographic survey, 3 vols. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy. Bonn. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH.
Leask, H.G. 1955 (Reprint 1977 and 1987) Irish churches and monastic buildings, vol. I. The first phases of the Romanesque. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.