Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Church Island (iveragh By., Castlequin Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island (iveragh By., Castlequin Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.93761, -10.28328
- SMR number
- KE079-032017-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
National Monument No. 59. Cross-Slabs: (2) (KE079-032017-) This rough slate slab has a straight top and a roughly pointed base and measures .97m x .4m x .7m thick. Two horizontal grooves, the upper one curving, are connected by a central vertical groove and emanate from two pairs of opposed notches at the edges of the slab. The design appears to be unfinished. The slab was found re-used as a covering-slab in the drain of the circular stone house.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 927. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cisternunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.