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
- 54.13226, -10.18834
- SMR number
- MA023-014022-
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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 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.