Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Reachlainn Uí Bhirn, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reachlainn Uí Bhirn
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66382, -8.82554
- SMR number
- DG089-018015-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described by Herity (1995, 97, No. 02) as follows: ‘Regular slab narrowing slightly from apex to butt, 72cm tall, 36cm in maximum width and 5cm in thickness, with a lopsided gable at apex. Filling the upper half of the west broad face of the slab is a Latin cross, 33cm tall and 27cm across the arms, with expanded T-bar terminals on all limbs, those on the arms in particular having convex outer edges. The slab stands within the oratory [DG089-018005-], set upright, oriented 200 degrees (20 degrees west of south), at the east end of the stone structure built against the north wall of the building.’ (Walsh 1983, 61 (F), Fig. 21, g, right)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 February 2014
Image DG089-018015-_01 (taken 21 July 1983): the cross-slab is on the right.
References
Herity, M. 1995 Two Island Hermitages in the Atlantic: Rathlin O'Birne, Donegal, and Caher Island, Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 125, 85-128.
Walsh, P. 1983 The monastic settlement on Rathlin O'Birne Island, County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 113, 53-66.
Nearby in the register
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