Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Commons (newtown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (newtown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17180, -6.60257
- SMR number
- KD024-020003-
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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
In 1985, Healy (SMR file) recorded three cross-slabs in Tipperkevin Church (KD024-020----):
'A' (KD024-020002-) a fine tapered slab of granite (L 1.83m; Wth 0.42-0.53m) with an incised Greek cross with expanded arms.
'B' (KD024-020003-) a large tapered slab of granite slab of granite (L 1.9m; Wth 0.6-0.77m) decorated with a single shaft with ringed cross at each end, in relief.
'C' (KD024-020004-) the lower portions of a granite slab (min. L. 1.04m; max. Wth. 0.42m ), with two parallel incised lines representing the shaft of a cross.
Two of the slabs, (KD024-020002- and KD024-020004-) were subsequently published (Healy 2009, 101, 104-5). Only one cross slab (KD024-020004-) was located on a 1986 visit when the interior of the church appeared to have been recently dug out (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.