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Cross-slab (present location)

Newtown (Nethercross By.), County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab (present location), Newtown, County Dublin, 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
Newtown (Nethercross By.)
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.46919, -6.22132
SMR number
DU011-159----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

Slab bearing a cross in false relief defined by carving segments to form a circular shape. The arms of the cross expand slightly. Below the cross is the date 1729, also in false relief, set within a rectangular panel and below this a section of the slab has been crudely chiseled away as if to highlight the carvings. Although the design would not be out of place within the canon of pre-12th cent. cross-slabs the possibility cannot be ruled that it may represent an early 18th century expression of a desire to emulate the earlier carved stone work on the site. The slab was recovered from the graveyard of Gallen Priory, Co. Offaly during the 1980s.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 29 November 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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