Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Innisfallen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Innisfallen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04657, -9.55399
- SMR number
- KE066-072009-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the chancel of an abbey church (KE066-072001-), SW of the altar. A recumbent limestone slab (L c. 2.1m; T c. 0.2m) tapering from top to bottom (Wth at top 0.7m; Wth at base 0.55m) with a chamfer at the base. The slab is broken in three places and the incised cross is barely visible. The cross (H of shaft 1.5m; L of transom 0.55m) with open terminals (may be due to erosion). It is comparable to Lionard's Group 1 class (1961 REF?) of outline crosses. It could be as early as the 9th century with the chamfer added later but is more likely to be 12th or 13th century in date. (Weaver 1995)
M. Weaver 1995 'An architectural survey of Inisfallen Island, Lough Leane, Co. Kerry.' MA Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.