Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Leataoibh Beag, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leataoibh Beag
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15245, -10.36815
- SMR number
- KE042-116----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
A small stone discovered recently in a ditch beside a house in Lateeve Beg is decorated on one face with a Latin cross with expanded terminals. An 8-pronged asterisk occurs beneath the right arm and the letter I or L beneath the left arm. The incisions are narrow and shallow and give the impression of having been executed with a nail or some similar pointed instrument. The stone measures .18m in length x .08m in width. The nearest sites with any religious connotations are Toberteh (KE042-117----), c. 260m to E, and a calluragh (KE042-118001-), c. 50m further E again, but the decoration may be of fairly recent date.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 864. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.