Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monasterboice
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77786, -6.41795
- SMR number
- LH021-062012-
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
A fragment of a greenish slab (max. L 0.55m; max. Wth 0.45m) bearing part of a very weathered incised Latin cross. It is erected against the exterior of the S wall of the N church (LH021-062003-). This is one of three cross-slabs at Monasterboice (see also: LH021-062013-; LH021-062014-).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.