Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
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
- 53.02839, -6.76080
- SMR number
- KD032-044010-
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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
One of two possible cross slabs (KD032-044010- and KD032-044015-) recorded by Fitzgerald (1899-1902(f), 161 (C)) in ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----), and described as a ‘green-flag … standing 4ft [c. 1.22m] above the ground, 2ft [c. 0.61m] in breadth and about 5 in. [c. 0.13m] in thickness [with] on it a plain cross 23 in. [c. 0.59m] long and 18 in. [c. 0.46m] across the arms. … the workmanship very rude’ (op. cit 159-60). The slab was not located.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.