Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Kilcloony (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcloony (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58996, -8.86521
- SMR number
- GA016-063003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located within a burial ground (GA016-063001-). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 392, no. 112) as ‘a thin, plain cruciform-shaped stone with an almost semi-circular top, short stubby arms and a narrow shaft which splays outwards near the bottom.’ The cross (H 0.56m; Wth across the arms 0.21m; Wth at base 0.23m; T 0.05m) was set loosely in the ground in a secondary position. Not located during a site visit in 2019 (FitzPatrick 2019, 28). See also GA016-063004-.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 7 December 2022
References
FitzPatrick, E. 2019 A settlement of the Uí hUiginn poets and its landscape setting Kilcloony, county Galway Cill Chluaine, Conmhaicne Mac Fheóruis. Internal Milltown Heritage Group report. Unpublished.
Higgins, J.G. 1987 The Early Christian cross slabs, pillar stones and related monuments of County Galway, Ireland, 2 vols. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 375. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.