Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Bobsville, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bobsville
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71531, -7.06906
- SMR number
- ME015-056003-
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 with a ringed cross has been recorded by Crawford (1913, 328, No. 4) and further cross-slabs came to light in the 1960s and 1970s (Moore and Kenny 1976, 35 (11)). At the moment there are six sandstone cross-slabs incorporated into the inner face of the graveyard wall close to the entrance at SW. A rectangular stone (dims 0.72m x 0.25m) has a ringed cross with expanded terminals incised deeply with double lines but the terminals of the arms do not survive and the inscription on either side of the shaft cannot be read.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 12 December, 2014
References
Moore, B. F. E. and Kenny, M. 1976 Tombstones in Clonabreany graveyard. Ríocht na Midhe, 6, 2, 16-36.
Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.