Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Cloone (mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloone (mohill By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94798, -7.78590
- SMR number
- LE033-006013-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
There are four cross-inscribed stones in the graveyard at the site of the early church and close to the cross-base. This slab (dims 0.47m x 0.04-0.06mm; H 0.41m) has a vertical line (L 0.24m) with three cross-bars (L 0.006-0.008m) incised in its E face beside the letter ‘G’. (Herity et al. 1997, 105, 004)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 December, 2019
References
Herity, M., Kelly, D. and Mattenberger, U. 1997 List of Early Christian cross-slabs in seven north-western counties. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 127, 89-124.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.