Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Clonroad Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84414, -8.98163
- SMR number
- CL033-189----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On display in Clare Museum, Ennis. A small irregularly shaped sandstone block (H 0.27m; Wth 0.2m; T 0.05m) with a plain incised cross continuing right to the edges of the stone. The horizontal line of the cross is not quite at right angles to the vertical line. Originally from within the remains of a church (CL021a005001-) on Illaunmore Island in Lough Derg (Gleeson 1955, 57). See original location record (CL021a005006-).
CL033-189----_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 October 2014
References
Gleeson, D.F. 1955 Cross slabs on Illaunmore, Lough Derg. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 7, no. 2, 57.
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.