Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Mellifont, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mellifont
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74263, -6.46509
- SMR number
- LH023-007008-
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 cross-engraved slab, which can be dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century because of the dressing with diagonal tooling. The cross appears to have had a round head with central boss enclosed by a circular raised area and a somewhat similar motif immediately underneath, but is too worn to give a detailed description. Now located in nave of the church (LH023-007005-) but probably originated in graveyard (LH023-007004-).
The above description is derived from the published '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: 24 August 2012
References
Davies, O. 1944 Old Churches in County Louth (Continued). County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 277-296.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.