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Cross-inscribed pillar in Inis Gé Thuaidh

Cross-inscribed pillar
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On top of Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-), at a house (MA023-014007-). Françoise Henry (1951, 67; Pillar 9) found this fragment of a cross-inscribed pillar amongst ‘some stones lying on the ruined side of House B [MA023-014007-]’. She describes it as follows: ‘It is the broken top of another pillar, and bears a very unusual decoration. Just above the section there seems to be a cross potent. Above this is a curved line, and still above it a human face indicated in a few lines.’ Attached image: MA023-014019-_01.JPG Image published by F. Henry (1951, Pl. XI, no. 1: Pillar 9) Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 July 2023 References: Henry, F. 1951 New monuments from Inishkea North, Co. Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland 81, 65-69

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