Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Sceilg Mhichíl, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77082, -10.54205
- SMR number
- KE104A001012-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This damaged stone cross (L 0.21m; Wth 0.11m; T 0.03m) was found in an enclosure (KE104A001013-) on the South Peak of Sceilg Mhichíl (Horn et al. 1990, 32). It has a rounded head and one partially broken short arm with a rounded angle beneath. The other arm is missing but its rounded angle is intact. The lower end of the shaft is partially broken. This cross has been allocated the SMR number KE066-215---- at its present location in the OPW, National Monuments Depot, Killarney (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 287, no. 24).
See attached figures 21, 22 and 23 taken from Horn, W., White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G. 1990 The forgotten hermitage of Skellig Michael.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 2 March 2022
References
Horn, W., White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G. 1990 The forgotten hermitage of Skellig Michael. Berkley. University of California Press.
O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. 1996 The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry. Cork University press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.