Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Inchcleraun, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchcleraun
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF021-048013-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Originally located on Inchcleraun Island. Described by Bigger (1900, 72) as 'another stone cross with a head carved upon it, [and] which had been removed to the mainland by a peasant to make a gate block'. Its present location is unknown. (Macalister 1949, Vol. 2, 29; 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.
Bigger, F.J. 1900 Inis Chlothrann (Inis Cleraun) Lough Ree: its history and antiquities. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 69-89.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.