Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 53.02837, -6.76070
- SMR number
- KD032-044012-
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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 (J)) in ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----). A rectangular granite block, the W and N faces of which taper inwards to give a square top (H 0.73m; base L 0.44m N-S; Wth 0.34m; top L 0.2m; Wth 0.2m) which contains a square mortice hole (L 0.2m; Wth 0.2m; D 0.10m), the E side of which is broken 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.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.