What is recorded here

That is the Killeen Cormac pillar stone in Colbinstown, County Kildare: a slender earthfast marker, 1.3 m tall, with a lightly carved bust on its upper north face. The figure has a very pointed chin, may wear a hooded cloak, and carries a cross over its left shoulder. Fitzgerald wrote it down in the late 1890s and suggested it might represent Our Lord, perhaps recut in the nineteenth century. It still stands where burial and belief meet, small enough to touch, strange enough to remember.

In the NW sector of ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----). First recorded by Fitzgerald (1899-1902(f), 161 (L)). A slender earthfast stone (H 1.3m; L 0.35m N-S; Wth 0.25m) has a lightly carved bust on the upper N face: a head, with a very pointed chin, is shown with a possible hooded-cloak and the figure carries a cross over its left shoulder. Fitzgerald suggests it may be meant to represent Our Lord, and that the carving may have been recut in the late-19th-century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 21 November 2013

Probably dates to the early Christian period, given its association with a burial ground and the carved bust, which may represent a saint or local figure. Such stones often had commemorative or ritual significance, possibly linked to Christianization or prehistoric funerary traditions.

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