Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Smarmore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Smarmore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81786, -6.56607
- SMR number
- LH017-084004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 June 2012
Revised by: Claire Breen
Situated in or near the church at Smarmore (LH017-084001-) are three cross-slabs (see also LH017-084005- and LH017-084006-). This one is a small rectangular stone (H 0.75m, Wth 0.33m) now standing E of the church and bearing a simple incised Latin cross with expanding terminals.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.