Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Carrigafreaghane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigafreaghane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03500, -9.48998
- SMR number
- KE066-235----
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
This cross-slab (L 0.53m; Wth 0.24m; T 0.06m) was found in the main ecclesiastical complex on the NE peak of Sceilg Mhichíl and is now in the care of the OPW (National Monuments Depot, Killarney). The slab, which tapers towards one side of its lower end, features an equal armed Maltese cross (0.12m x 0.12m) defined by a pockmarked groove (Wth 0.01m). The SMR number at its original location on Sceilg Mhichíl is KE104A001136-.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.