Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Clonamery, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonamery
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46690, -7.03179
- SMR number
- KK033-021009-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Currently resting in an upright position against the W gable of the nave, in the SW angle of the 10th/11th-century church of Clonamery (KK033-021001-). A granite pillar stone (L 1.12m; Wth at top 0.375; Wth at base 0.3m; T 0.085m) which is slightly wider at the rounded top. It is decorated with a simple equal-armed cross (H 0.25m; Wth 0.21m) which has been incised (D 0.02m) into the upper portion of the stone. There are two other cross-inscribed pillars in this church (KK033-021003-; KK033-021010-).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.