Rathwire - WM020-135001-

3D Model

Surveyed as an action of the Westmeath Heritage Plan 2018-2023, funded by the Heritage Council

(H 0.58m ; 0.27m x 0.27m)

Source SMR Moved from Killucan village. Described in 1976 as ‘Darcy 1604 with Latin inscription, shaft grooved and now dislodged and broke. A cross shaft consisting of two stones, inserted in a boulder, which may be the original base, but cannot be certain. The lower stone (H 0.58m ; 0.27m x 0.27m) is grooved along the edges vertically. The stone cement bonded to the top of the lower stone is square sectioned (H 0.43m; Wth 0.26m ; T 0.26m) . On the top of the surface of this stone is a coating of copper with fragment of slate embedded, and there is an iron pin (dims. 0.08m; H 0.02m) projecting upwards. No trace of the inscription described in 1976 can now be deciphered.’ (ASI Survey file 1998). This cross commemorates Arthur Darcy and his wife who died in 1604.