Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Caherlehillan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlehillan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98601, -10.07883
- SMR number
- KE070-043004-
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
The second of two cross-inscribed slabs that stand on the W side of the corner-post shrine (KE070-043003-). This broad slab (H 0.75m) features an encircled Maltese cross pendant from which is a grooved stem, representing a flabellum. The stem has two lozenge-shaped expansions and a terminal triangular expansion. Above the encircled cross is the stylised profile of a bird while beneath it is a pair of curvilinear motifs, possibly representing the ribbons which are occasionally associated with flabella. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 263-5, no. 934, slab 2)
See attached photograph courtesy of Amanda Clarke
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-slabunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.