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
- 51.77218, -10.53871
- SMR number
- KE104A001142-
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
This stone cross (L 0.2m; Wth 0.09m; T 0.03m) was found in the main ecclesiastical complex on the NE peak of Sceilg Mhichíl and is now in the care of the OPW (National Monuments Depot, Killarney). It displays a head and two short rounded arms, one higher than the other, and each having slightly rounded angles underneath. The shaft is missing. This cross has been allocated the SMR number KE066-239---- at its present location in the OPW Depot, Killarney.
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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.