Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Inchcleraun, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchcleraun
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF021-048010-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly located on Inchcleraun Island, this cross-slab is one of four (see also LF021-048005-, LF021-048009- and LF021-048011-) from the island now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, county Galway; see GA084-151003-). It consists of a fragment of a subrectangular, round-topped, grey, fossiliferous limestone slab (H 0.49m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.09m) bearing a simple Latin cross with expanded triangular-shaped terminals. On the lower left hand side there is a small incised double or S-shaped spiral motif. (English 1971, 148; Ciuchini 2010, Stone C, 91-2, 102, fig. 6)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 June 2013
References
English, N.W. 1971 Field antiquities of County Longford. Journal of the Longford Historical Society 1(2), 146-55.
Ciuchini, P. 2010 Illicit traffic of Irish antiquities: the international case of the Inchcleraun gravestones. Archeomafie 2, 88–102.