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Cross-slab

Dromkeen South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Dromkeen South, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dromkeen South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.57766, -8.40560
SMR number
LI024-001003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Set face up into concrete surround on top of W wall (H 0.8m) of Dromkeen medieval parish church ruins (LI024-001001-). Rectangular shaped stone slab (L 1.46m; Top Wth 0.57m; base Wth 0.53m; T 0.17-0.23m) decorated with an incised double lined ringed cross standing on a pyramidal-shaped base. Described by Crawford (1912, 240) as 'carved with a two-line ringed cross on a triangular base.' Cross-slab first drawn in the 19th century by George Du Noyer (1817-69) and a copy of which was made by William Frazer in 1905 (NLI, PD 1975 TX 19 (61) ).

Compiled by: Denis Power

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 04 January 2019

References

Crawford, H.S. 1912 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 217-44.

NLI, PD 1975 TX 19(61) National Library of Ireland, Close-up of a tombstone from Dromkeen, County Limerick. William Frazer. Sketch Books of Irish Antiquities. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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