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Cross-inscribed pillar

Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed pillar, Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, 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
Inis Gé Thuaidh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.13230, -10.18826
SMR number
MA023-014019-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On top of Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-), at a house (MA023-014007-).
Françoise Henry (1951, 67; Pillar 9) found this fragment of a cross-inscribed pillar amongst ‘some stones lying on the ruined side of House B [MA023-014007-]’. She describes it as follows: ‘It is the broken top of another pillar, and bears a very unusual decoration. Just above the section there seems to be a cross potent. Above this is a curved line, and still above it a human face indicated in a few lines.’

Attached image:
MA023-014019-_01.JPG Image published by F. Henry (1951, Pl. XI, no. 1: Pillar 9)

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 18 July 2023

References:

Henry, F. 1951 New monuments from Inishkea North, Co. Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland 81, 65-69

Nearby in the register

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

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