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 inidcated
- Coordinates
- 53.71537, -7.06920
- SMR number
- ME015-056009-
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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 1975, 35). At the moment there are six sandstone cross-slabs incorporated into the inner face of the graveyard wall close to the entrance at SW. This stone (dims 0.78m x 0.48m) has the faint outline of a ringed cross with T-shaped terminals created by double incised lines, but only the terminals are barely visible.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.