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
- DG089-018020-
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1985 lying face-down amongst the roofing-stones of the well-house (DG089-018002-) this slab is described by Herity (1995, 99, No. 07) as a ‘Slab with one pointed or gabled end, 51cm tall, 27cm in maximum width and up to 5cm in thickness; the gabled end is the only one which would provide purchase in order for the slab to stand upright and is taken here as the butt with the incised cross described in relation to this presumed orientation. On one broad face, near the flat apex is a Latin cross, 26.5cm tall and 23.5cm across the arms. The cross has elaborated terminals at the end of each limb, on the arms and at the 'foot' a bar terminal intersects each limb 2-2.5cm before the end of the foot, and 3-3.5cm before the ends of the arms; on the 'head' is a forked or fish-tail terminal.’
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.
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.