Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Yellowbatter, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Yellowbatter
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71797, -6.34044
- SMR number
- LH024-030003-
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
There is a portion of a large granite memorial slab with a date of 1613 lying on the ground immediately to the S of the standing church remains (LH024-030001-). It has a cross with a stepped base and crosslets on the arms. There is a skull and cross- bones in each of the upper angles of the cross, and scrolls and triangles near its broken base. There is lettering and the date around the remaining margin of the slab.
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: 28 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.