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Cross-inscribed pillar

Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland

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Townland
Inis Gé Thuaidh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.13226, -10.18834
SMR number
MA023-014022-

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David 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

On Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-), adjacent to the S side of a house (MA023-014008-).
This cross-inscribed pillar bearing an incised Latin cross was first recorded by Françoise Henry (1951, 67; Pillar 11), who found it lying on the ground beside an upright cross-inscribed pillar (MA023-014021-).
National Monument in state ownership (no. 379).

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 20 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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