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Cross-slab

Taghshinny, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Taghshinny, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Taghshinny
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59269, -7.69883
SMR number
LF023-097004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Within Taghshinny graveyard (LF023-097002-), in rubble close to the N wall. One of two cross-slabs (see also LF023-97003-.) It comprises two fragments which form the basal end of a cross-slab (dims. H 0.41m; Wth 0.31m; T 0.07m). On one face part of the stem and one complete arm of a cross, with a D-shaped terminal, is visible. At the intersection of the stem and arm is a small incised cross with D-shaped terminals within a circle. Fragments of an inscription, running parallel to the right-hand side of the stem, read AELM..A..RE, from top to bottom. Corlett (1998, 115-18) has speculated that 'the usual prefix OR [OIT] DO (a prayer for) was presumably on the left side and that the dedication was to [M]AEL MÁ[I]RE' (Ibid. 2001, 41). In 1999 the cross-slab was removed from Taghshinny graveyard by the National Museum of Ireland for safe keeping in Kildare Street (NMI Reg. No. 1999:59).

Cross-reference with DU018-470----

Compiled and revised by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 22 May 2023

References

Corlett, C. 1998a Miscellanea - Two previously unpublished cross slabs from Taghshinny, County Longford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 128, 115-18.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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