Overview
monument — Irish Town is recorded as monument in Wexford. The saved source gives an exact reason to look beyond the map label: Freestanding cut-limestone Celtic Cross-style cross, dated 1880, on repointed pyramidal base on repointed plinth.
Why it was built
The label monument gives the safest clue to purpose or form. It does not by itself prove the exact building method, daily use, age or sequence of changes at this place.
People and work
The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.
What survives
The saved source records: Freestanding cut-limestone Celtic Cross-style cross, dated 1880, on repointed pyramidal base on repointed plinth.
Why it mattered
monument — Irish Town matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A cross 'RESTORED [1880] BY THE TOWN COMMISSIONERS' representing an important component of the built heritage of New Ross [SMR WX029-013075-]: meanwhile, a much-weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824). This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Irishtown Crossmemorialunder 0.1 miles
- Cross — New Rossmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Old milestone — 65 [Irish miles] /From /Dubl [Dublin]monumentunder 0.1 miles
- house — Irish Townbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Wayside shrine — N11096733313monumentunder 0.1 miles
- house — Haughton Placebuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Town defences in New Rossmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Maiden Gate — Fair Gatebuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Historic building — Abbey Viewbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Haughton's Fever Hospital — Haughton Placebuildingunder 0.1 miles
- post box — Irish Townbuilding0.1 miles
- Mount Carmel — Mary Street Upperbuilding0.1 miles
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