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
- 52.04658, -9.55395
- SMR number
- KE066-072012-
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
Incorporated into the E window of an abbey church (KE066-072001-). A small yellow sandstone slab (dims. 0.26m x 0.15m) with an incised cross-in-circle motif, now damaged. The linear cross (H c. 0.10m) has wedge-shaped terminals. One horizontal arm survives (L 0.05m) and it was probably an equal-armed cross originally. Part of an inscription is visible beneath the motif, though not decipherable. Comparable in size and style to the Latteragh, Kilell and Conwall slabs (Kelly 1988,) and this example at Innisfallen is closely linked with similarly inscribed slabs at Clonmacnoise, Cloghinch and Inishmore. Possibly 8th-century in date and, by virtue of its size, may have been placed with the burial (Kelly ibid.). The cross was first recorded in 1995 and its original location is not known. (Weaver 1995)
M. Weaver 1995 'An architectural survey of Inisfallen Island, Lough Leane, Co. Kerry.' MA Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC.
Compiled by: Mairéad Weaver
Date of upload: 17 February 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.