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Cross-slab (present location)

Cork City, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab (present location), Cork City, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cork City
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.89633, -8.49460
SMR number
CO074-165----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This cross-slab (L 0.56m; Wth 0.15-0.19m; T 0.07-0.08m) was found in 1991 on the seashore in the townland of Laheratanvally, c. 8km W of Skibbereen and is now in Cork Public Museum. The following description is based on an account of it published by E. Shee Twohig (1992, 120-23). The slab is decorated on one face with a linear ringed Latin cross. The ring is penannular, the terminals turning outwards to finish the circle. In each quadrant formed by the arms of the cross there is a small circle; that on the top right is very weathered. On each side of the stem are two short lines forming a V, the point towards the sides of the stone. The original location (CO140-079----) of the cross-slab is unknown.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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