Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Tonaknock, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonaknock
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.38283, -9.69715
- SMR number
- KE015-108003-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Tonaknock stone cross is situated opposite Killahan Church and graveyard (KE015-108001-. This carved limestone measures 3.5m high x .65m wide x .33m thick. It is of crude workmanship and marks an early stage in the development of the Irish high cross. The W face of the cross displays six circular motifs which may symbolically represent the figure of Christ. The incised circular motifs would all appear to go in the same, clockwise direction. There are two at the head, two on the left arm, one in the centre, and one just below the central motif. The S arm of the cross is missing. This was, according to tradition, blown off by a cannonball during an attack on nearby Ballymacaquim Castle (KE015-110----). When O'Donovan (1841) visited this cross and took a description, the whole cross would appear to have been whitewashed.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 878. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.