Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Clonenagh, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonenagh
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01118, -7.42307
- SMR number
- LA017-003022-
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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 an elevated area. In 1988 thirteen early Christian cross-slabs, rectangular in shape were uncovered during the digging of a pathway through the graveyard (LA017-003007-) at Clonenagh. Three are in false relief, the remainder are simple incised crosses. These cross-slabs have been attached to the inner E face of the graveyard wall in the W quadrant of the graveyard.
The slabs have been numbered one to thirteen by Manning in his article entitled 'Cross-Slabs from Clonenagh, Co. Laois' (1998, 185-192). The slabs are upright just inside the gateway to the graveyard. This area has been used as a dumping place for cut grass and other debris that has resulted in the base of the slabs being covered in soil and vegetation.
Slab no 13 consists of a 'tiny cross is set in the ground within the burial plot of the Finn family, near the north-west corner of the graveyard. It is a plain Latin cross with dressed back portions on each face at each side of the shaft' (Manning 1998, 189).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.