Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Oldtown (clanmallagh By.),shanbally, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (clanmallagh By.),shanbally
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA034-042----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated cross-inscribed stone described by Comerford as 'About two miles south of Clopoke is an ancient place of interment (LA034-043), called Shanavally (old town). On a mountain flag-stone is traced the device of a Celtic cross, the rest of the stone being left in the rough. Local tradition assigns this to mark the grave of a bishop'(Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 130).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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