What is recorded here
Cross-inscribed stone (present location) in Ardcarn (boyle By.) is a cross-inscribed stone (present location) in Ardcarn (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The slab stands in a walled graveyard built by 1914 on the east-facing slope of Ardcarn Hill. Mary B. Timoney identified a second cross-inscribed stone there in 2015.
On the E-facing slope of Ardcarn Hill. A new graveyard (dims c. 100m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) extending SW from the old one (RO006-103004-) and defined by masonry walls was built by 1914 and it contains the cross-inscribed stone (RO006-103006-) and a second cross-inscribed stone identified by Mary B. Timoney in 2015. This slab (dims 0.54m x 0.5m; T 0.15m) has an incised latin cross (H 0.21m; Span 0.18m) created by a wide stroke (Wth 1.4cm). The cross was taken from an island in Lough Key c. 1990, but it is not known which one.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
See the attached image courtesy of Mary B. Timoney
Date of revised upload: 28 January, 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Templemihil (Site of)Church · 92 yd
Ardcarn Churchchurch/chapel · 93 yd
MonasteryReligious house, Augustinian, of Arrouaise nuns · 168 yd
Longford HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Horse-chestnutHorse-chestnut · 1.7 mi
Lough Key Forest ParkWood · 1.8 mi
Western RedcedarWestern Redcedar · 1.8 mi
Castle IslandIslet · 1.9 mi
Green IslandIslet · 2.0 mi
Erris BayBay · 2.4 mi