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
- LF021-048012-
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The National Monuments Service's description
On Inchcleraun Island. This cross-slab was recorded and illustrated by Stokes (1872, vol. 1, 75; pl. 74, no. 177). The illustration indicates that it is an unusual framed outline expansional cross. The frame is wider at the head than at the base and the top part of it has a convex curve. There is a rectangular panel at the centre of the cross and the arms and base have semicircular expansions. The upper part of the cross has a gradual flared expansion and is axe-shaped. Each corner of the frame is cut off by an arc defining a quarter circle, though the two lower arcs are cut across by the basal expansion of the cross. The inscription, ARMEDA, is spread over the two left-hand quadrants. It was not located. (English 1971, 148)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, 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.
Stokes, M. (ed.) 1872 Christian inscriptions in the Irish language, chiefly collected and drawn by George Petrie L.L.D., 2 vols. Dublin. The Royal Historical and Archaeological Society of Ireland.