Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Tailtin, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tailtin
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70008, -6.78152
- SMR number
- ME017-031003-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Inside the NW angle of the graveyard (ME017-031001-)at Teltown is a damaged headstone(dims 0.7m; H 0.4m) with a cross (H 0.35m; span c. 0.35m) that has expanded terminals crudely inscribed on its W face. (Eogan 2006, 20-1)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 January, 2016
References
Eogan, G. 2006 Some archaeological sites at Tailteann and environs, Co. Meath (with Appendix by Patricia Ryan on the Donaghpatrick Scartch Dial) Ríocht na Mídhe 17, 16-31.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.