Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15774, -6.91145
- SMR number
- KD022-029027-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A large collection of cross slabs, grave slabs, decorated stones and three effigies (See KD022-029023- and KD022-029027- to KD022-029057-), dating from the 10th to the 17th centuries have been placed in St. Brigid’s Cathedral (KD022-029005-).
KD022-029027-: In the S-transept. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 225-6. Fig. 98), the lower half of a granite cross slab (L 0.91m; Wth 0.34m; T 0.2m) is chamfered on one side and is decorated with the stem of a cross, outlined by two grooves, whose foot terminates in a bulbar extension.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.