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Cross-inscribed pillar

Clonamery, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed pillar, Clonamery, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonamery
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.46692, -7.03160
SMR number
KK033-021003-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Currently fixed in an upright position against the E face of the E wall of the nave of the 10th/11th-century church of Clonamery (KK033-021001-), the lower portion (L 0.2m) being currently in the ground. According to Crawford (1923, 197-9), the stone was found half buried in the graveyard (KK033-021002-). It is a narrow rectangular upright stone (total H 1.04m (ibid.); Wth 0.15-0.21m; T 0.06-0.1m) with a rounded top, of what Crawford (ibid.) describes as a 'greenish slate rock'. It is decorated in ascending order from the base with a raised plain cross (H 0.14m; Wth 0.12m), 0.3m above this there is an incised cross within a circle (diam. 0.6m), 0.115m above this there is a circular depression (diam. 0.085; D 0.035), 0.08m above this there is a raised cross (H 0.2m) with shorter cross arms (Wth 0.14m) and 0.02m above this is a circular depression (diam. 0.06m; D 0.015-0.02m) 0.05m from the top. Crawford (ibid.) compares this to similar pillar stones found S of Dublin. There are two other cross-inscribed pillars in this church (KK033-021009-; KK033-021010-).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 January 2017

References

Crawford, H.S. 1923 Miscellanea - A curiously marked pillar-stone at Clonamery, Co. Kilkenny. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 53, 197-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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