Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Castlekeeran, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlekeeran
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74088, -6.95421
- SMR number
- ME016-006005-
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
Within the graveyard (ME016-006007-) of Diseart Chiaran churhc site (ME016-006----). A large sandstone cross-slab has a cross with expanded terminals defined by two incised double-lines within an incised frame (O'Connell 1957, 25). One end of the slab is missing (max. surviving H 1.27m; Wth 0.55-0.61m; T 6-7cm), and it may have been an altar-front rather than a cross-slab.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 June 2014
Updated: 03 November 2025
References
O'Connell, P. 1957 Castle Kieran. Ríocht na Mídhe, 1, 3, 17-33.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.