Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Killeen (ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ardagh By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64008, -7.61762
- SMR number
- LF020-033003-
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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
Originally located within the SE quadrant of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF020-033----). Crawford (1913, 326; 1926, 125) recorded a cross-inscribed stone at the base of a low mound of stones within the enclosure. The stone (H 0.90m; Wth 0.42m; T 0.25m) was originally rectangular in plan. On one face are two incised Greek crosses within incised circles, which are connected by a linear bar. Both crosses and the bar are defined by incised bands. Now in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-182----). (English 1971, 147)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.