Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Castletown (morgallion By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (morgallion By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78672, -6.71461
- SMR number
- ME012-016004-
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-slab (dims 0.41m x 0.16m; H 0.98m) with an incised latin cross inside a moulded frame occupying the whole E face is in the graveyard (ME012-016001-) W of the church. A fret pattern occupies the space above the arms of the cross.
See attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.