Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43143, -8.65691
- SMR number
- SL001-001026-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the SW corner of Templemolaise (SL001-001009-).
Pillar stone (H:<1.55 m, W: 0.74 m Th: 0.156) whose surface almost filled with an incised shafted cross (c 1.29 m by 0.62 m). The three upper arms taper slightly and are decorated with bulbous serifs (0.216 m max. width) each terminating in three points, separated by cusps. The shaft terminates in a large horizontal rectangle (0.36 m by 0.236 m) defined by an incised band (c. 0.046 m wide). This stands immediately adjacent to a large stone basin or bullaun (SL001-001010-) with which it may have had a particular association in antiquity.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Stone troughunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.