Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15793, -6.91146
- SMR number
- KD022-029057-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A large collection of cross slabs, grave slabs, decorated stones and three effigies (See KD022-029023- and KD022-029027- to KD022-029057-), dating from the 10th to the 17th centuries have been placed in St. Brigid’s Cathedral (KD022-029005-).
KD022-029057-: In the N transept. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 240-41), a small limestone block (H 0.36m; Wth 0.22m; T 0.13m) has a Latin cross on a sloping foot carved in high relief on one face. The surface of the cross is decorated in low relief with foliage on the arms, pocking in the centre, and the shaft has a herring-bone pattern.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 8 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.