Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Kildun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98860, -9.83858
- SMR number
- MA044-009002-
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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
Located in a burial ground (MA044-009001-), which survives as a low mound (14.5m ENE-WSW; 10.2m NNW-SSE). The cross-inscribed pillar is centrally located on the mound. It is a National Monument in State ownership (No. 423). It consists of an upright, roughly rectangular-shaped schist slab (H 2.02m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.23m), aligned WNW-ESE. The upper portion of the WNW face is occupied by an Maltese cross-in-circle (diam. 0.37m), incised in false relief. A number of small packing or support stones surround the base of the stone. There is a standing stone (MA044-009003-) located at the SW end of the burial ground.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.