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
- 53.77797, -6.41798
- SMR number
- LH021-062013-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Sometimes referred to as the Ruarcan slab, this is an irregular-shaped greenish coloured slab (max. L 1.72m; max. Wth 0.77m) which bears a Latin cross, a rectangular frame of two deeply incised lines and an Irish inscription which reads ‘Or du Ruarcan’. It is set in concrete and surrounded by a low iron paling on the N side of the N church (LH021-062003-). It is one of three cross-slabs at Monasterboice (see also: LH021-062012-; LH021-062014-). (Lionard 1961, 131)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 July 2012
References
Lionard, P. 1961 Early Irish grave-slabs. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 61C, 95-161.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.