What is recorded here
Situated in a level landscape on the E side of the R132 Julianstown to Gormanstown and Balbriggan road, c. 1km SE of Julianstown bridge. Whitecross townland is marked on the Taylor and Skinner Maps of the Roads of Ireland (1783) and the cross is indicated as a feature (Andrews 1969, 2). An octagonal sandstone shaft (dims 0.29m x 0.29m; H 0.8m) has a mortice on top and half the sides have stops morphing into a rectangular form at the bottom. It is set in a rectangular limestone base (dims 0.82m x 0.72m; H c. 0.3m) with chamfered upper edges. There is no inscription. It is now in the front garden of a house.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME028-007
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- Maker shown on the Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Rfoconnor at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Karora, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- William Ellison, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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