Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
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
- 53.02838, -6.76080
- SMR number
- KD032-044011-
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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 bases (KD032-044011- and KD032-044012-) recorded by Fitzgerald (1899-1902(f), 161 (D)) in ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----), and described as standing, ‘… 21 in. [c. 0.53m] above the ground [with] a socket at the upper end 7 in. [c. 0.18m] by 9.5 in. [c. 0.24m], and 5 in. [c. 0.13m] deep for the insertion of the missing portion … one side of the socket is broken away’ (op. cit. 160). It 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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.