Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Portlecka, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portlecka
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92817, -8.99000
- SMR number
- CL025-070012-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated beneath the E window of Ruan Church (CL025-070002-), lying recumbent in gravel. A tapering graveslab (L 1.91m; Wth at top 0.61m; Wth at base 0.52m; D 0.07m) with a double-lined incised ringed cross ending in a stepped base. The slab is broken across the middle at an angle. No evidence of an inscription. Several other graveslabs with similar incised crosses are lying in the church and some others have raised Latin crosses.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 31 October 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.