Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Inch (magunihy By., Brewsterfield Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inch (magunihy By., Brewsterfield Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98171, -9.33001
- SMR number
- KE076-011002-
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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 a children's burial ground (KE076-011001-). A rectangular stone slab (H 1.6m; Wth 0.82m; T 0.06m), which is aligned N-S, has identical carvings of a ringed cross (H 1.18m) centrally placed on each face. The head of the cross (Wth 0.12m) extends upwards beyond the ring, the arms extend beyond the ring to the edge of the slab, and the shaft extends beyond the ring to the present ground level. A faint carving of a bird was recently noted on the E face of the cross-slab at the top of the shaft of the cross (pers. comm. John Sheehan). According to O'Connell (1937, 303-304), the 'cross on the west side appears to be a more modern copy of that on the east side'.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.