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
- 53.02857, -6.76090
- SMR number
- KD032-044016-
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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 NW sector of ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----). First recorded by Fitzgerald (1899-1902(f), 161 (L)). A slender earthfast stone (H 1.3m; L 0.35m N-S; Wth 0.25m) has a lightly carved bust on the upper N face: a head, with a very pointed chin, is shown with a possible hooded-cloak and the figure carries a cross over its left shoulder. Fitzgerald suggests it may be meant to represent Our Lord, and that the carving may have been recut in the late-19th-century.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.