Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Newtown (nethercross By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (nethercross By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.46919, -6.22132
- SMR number
- DU011-159----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.