Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Reachlainn Uí Bhirn, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reachlainn Uí Bhirn
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66401, -8.82542
- SMR number
- DG089-018019-
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
This slab stands on top of the well-house (DG089-018002-) and is supported in a broken socketed stone (Herity 1995, 98, No. 06b). It is described by Herity (ibid., 98, No. 06a) as a ‘Long, slender slab with spatulate, slightly gabled apex and long tapering 'stem' to butt, 74cm tall, 15cm wide and 5cm in thickness; the slab is oriented 120 degrees (30 degrees south of east) and crosses are cut near the apex on both broad faces. Both crosses are highlighted by the application of red paint.
Face A (north-east): Simple linear cross, 16.5cm tall and 11.3cm across the arms, deeply cut limbs with simple terminals slightly rounded, most marked on head and foot where the channel is broader.
Face B (south-west): Similar simple cross but cut with broader lines, 19cm tall and 12.5cm across the arms.’ (Walsh 1983,61 (A), Fig. 21,a)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 February 2014
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.