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
- 51.77099, -10.54207
- SMR number
- KE104A001015-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Found on the outer terrace (KE104A001016-) on the steep rocky W-facing slopes of the South Peak of Sceilg Mhichíl (Horn et al. 1990, 62-3). This roughly shaped damaged stone cross (L 0.48m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.04m) has one arm and a rounded head. The shaft is intact but one arm is largely gone. This cross has been allocated the SMR number KE066-216---- at its present location in the OPW, National Monuments Depot, Killarney.
See attached figures 12, 54 and 55 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.
Nearby in the register
- Terraceunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.