Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cill Maoilchéadair, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Maoilchéadair
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18476, -10.33618
- SMR number
- KE042-026004-
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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
National Monument No. 65. The Early Christian and Medieval ecclesiastical complex at Kilmalkedar (KE042-026----) lies at the foot of the W slopes of Reenconnell hill, overlooking Smerwick Harbour. The Reenconnell ridge peaks at 907 feet/276m to NE of the site and the area around Kilmalkedar is sheltered on its N and S sides by spurs of this hill.
(4) Cross-slab (KE042-026004-) Fig. 185: Drawings of this slab have been published by both Romilly Allen (1892, 268) and Macalister (1949, 96). It was still at the site in 1965 when Rynne (NMI) noted that two freshly-broken fragments of it lay on a large tomb in the chancel of the church, but it is now missing. It measured .47m x .34m x .08m thick and one face was inscribed with a cross-in-circle, beneath which was a small cross with expanded terminals and the inscription DNE (for Domine). The cross within the circle also had slightly expanded terminals to the lower and side arms, and the upper arm terminated in a B-shaped motif.
Cross-slab 912 (No. 1) described by Macalister (1949, 96) as; 'A fragment, 1' 6" X 1' 0" X 0' 4", bearing a circle containing a cross, the upper arm with a B-shaped terminal : a small cross : and the letters DN[I]' (Plate XLI).
See attached drawing of cross-slab 1912 taken from Macalister 1949
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 855. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 20 May 2022
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Allen, J. Romilly 1892 Notes on the antiquities in Co. Kerry visited by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and the Cambrian Archaeological Association, August 1891, Parts 1 and 2. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 22, 158-70; 255-84.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.