Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Beggerin Island, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beggerin Island
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.36848, -6.40874
- SMR number
- WX038-004006-
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
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A schist stone (H 0.77m; Wth 0.20m) with a circular head (diam. 0.32m) is now in the National Museum of Ireland. One side is plain but the other is decorated with a ringed cross of elaborate interlace in low relief. Viking influence and a tenth century date are ascribed to this stone (Harbison 1988, 62-3).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 January, 2013
References
Harbison, P. 1988 “Exotic” ninth- to tenth-century cross-decorated stones from Clonmore, Co. Carlow and Begerin, Co. Wexford. In G. Mac Niocaill and P.P. Wallace (eds), Keimelia: studies in medieval archaeology and history in memory of Tom Delaney, 59-66. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.