Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pillar stone
Colbinstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Colbinstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02821, -6.76094
- SMR number
- KD032-044008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In the SW sector of ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----). First recorded by Fitzgerald (1899-1902(f), 161 (A)). A tapering lozenge-shaped stone (H 1.06m; base Wth of NE face 0.23m; Wth of SE face 0.3m; Wth of SW face 0.23m; Wth of NW face 0.25m; top L 0.23m E-W; Wth 0.10m N-S), the top and N and E corners of which are flaking away.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21 November 2013
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1899-1902 Killeen Cormac. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3, 148-63.
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