Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.