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Cross-inscribed pillar

Corkagh Beg, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed pillar, Corkagh Beg, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Corkagh Beg
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.26006, -8.74147
SMR number
SL013-108001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Stone pillar (max. H 1.5m; max. Wth 0.34m), broader at the base than the top, aligned N-S and leaning slightly to E. The W face has been smoothed, on the lower half is a simple shallowly incised Latin cross with bifurcated terminals (L 0.48m). (Swift 2002, 138)

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

References

Swift, C. 2002 Ogham stones in Sligo and their context. In M.A. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo: first essays for Sligo Field Club, 127-39. Sligo Field Club.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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