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
- GA016-063004-
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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-). Two roughly cut stone crosses were noted in the older part of the burial ground on inspection in October 1984 (SMR file). This one was 0.8m high and 0.4m wide; date unknown. For details on the other see GA016-063003-. Neither were located during a site visit in 2019 (FitzPatrick 2019, 28).
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 Unpublished.
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.