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Killeen Cross Slab
 

County

Mayo

Coordinates

N 53° 42' 48.6"   W 009° 52' 59.16"

Nearest town

Louisburgh

Grid Ref.

L 75697 75406

Map No.

37

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

14

Date of visit

Friday 15 June 2018

GPS Accuracy (m)

2
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The red and yellow stick is 1 metre long, for scale.


About 20 metres southeast Killeen standing stone is the burial place of Reverend David Lyons, parish priest of Louisburgh, marked with both a modern slab and an early Christian slab incised with a main cross surrounded by four smaller crosses on the west (280°) side. This kind of cross is known with the name of Cross of the Thieves.
The main cross is 37 centimetres high.
The other side of the slab is plain.


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