Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cloondara, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloondara
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73257, -7.90746
- SMR number
- LF013-018002-
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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 the W part of a graveyard (LF013-018004-), close to an early medieval church (LF013-018----). One of two cross-slabs (see also LF013-018003-). One face of this irregularly shaped sandstone fragment (H 0.83m; Wth 0.42m; T 0.1m) is completely decorated with intricate, geometric designs with three small, simple, Latin crosses at the margins. (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 16, fig. 4)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.