Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone head
Kilmurry More, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry More
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07192, -9.35096
- SMR number
- MA038-049003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (MA038-049002-). This carved stone head is set in concrete at the entrance to the graveyard. The head (Wth 0.1m; T 0.08m; H 0.17m) is carved in relief on a stone block (0.27m x 0.28m; H 0.2m). The facial features are simply delineated, and a headdress, perhaps a bishop's mitre, the base of which forms a horizontal band across the forehead, is clearly depicted. It seems likely that it came from the medieval church (MA038-049001-), no surface trace of which is now evident in the graveyard.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.