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
- 52.04669, -9.55413
- SMR number
- KE066-072011-
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
Originally underneath the garth wall in the cloister of the Augustinian Abbey (KE066-072001-) (OPW records). Subsequently placed lying flat on top of the N wall of the cloister garth. A dark-grey slate-like slab (L 1.33m; Wth 0.63m; T 0.15m) with an incised cross. The cross (L 0.9m; Wth c. 0.55m) is damaged and eroded at the base and sides and comprises an inner vertical incised line with a circle at the centre. The arms extend from a central circle to terminate in an expanded horseshoe shape. An outer incised line mirrors the inner line on either side. Similar cross-slabs at Clonmacnoise and Cong date to the 10th century. This slab is now missing. (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
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.