Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
An Ghairfeanaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Ghairfeanaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14814, -10.23438
- SMR number
- KE043-228003-
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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 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details about cross-inscribed stone No. 59 in Garfinny graveyard (KE043-228----): 'Fourteen previously unrecorded cross-slabs or simple cross inscribed headstones were plotted and recorded in Garfinny. These crosses comprise eight small unhewn stones inscribed with crosses (59, 61, 63, 77, 95, 203, 530 and 708); five 18th / 19th century cross inscribed slabs (98, 130, 347, 449 & 712) and one late stone cross (181). Cross-slab (59), of thin local sandstone, 0.60m x 0.24m x 0.05m, deeply incised with large ‘V’ profile Latin cross with slightly expanded terminals. Possibly late 18th or early 19th century' (Dunne 2010, 16).
See attached photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 June 2022
References
Dunne, L. 2010 Archaeological Survey, Garfinny, Dingle, Co. Kerry. Unpublished report for The Heritage Office, Kerry County Council (SMR file).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.