Survey Data
Reg No
11215009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1865 - 1870
Coordinates
311536, 227674
Date Recorded
26/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding cut-granite "Murrain Cross", dated 1867. Set in wooded park.
Appraisal
A so-called "Murrain Cross" making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in an urbanised setting. NOTE: The "Murrain Cross" is a relic of agricultural activity in the south Dublin region which, in the nineteenth century, saw livestock affected by outbreaks of disease including Blackleg, Bovine Pleuropneumonia and Foot-and-Mouth. A widespread outbreak of disease prompted Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803-78) to issue an order that all grazing fields be blessed (1867). The "Murrain Cross" off Firhouse Road is one of only two surviving in the south Dublin landscape and it has a sibling off Ballycullen Road (see 11220007).