Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Kilturra, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilturra
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02422, -8.60221
- SMR number
- SL038-121003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Kilturra graveyard (SL038-121002-). A fragment of a sandstone cross-slab (0.18m x 0.22m) was found in the graveyard; the grooves of the cross measured 10-15mm in width (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). This fragment is now in the NMI (DU018-223----).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 13 September 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.