Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Town Parks (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (kells Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72758, -6.87992
- SMR number
- ME017-044032-
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
There is a granite cross-slab (Wth 0.56m; H 1.69m; T 0.16m) on the S side of the tower of the parish church. It is sub-rectangular and partly damaged, and has an interlaced latin cross in false relief within a border. Above the cross is an Alpha and Omega, an IHS, and a Chi Rho, and along the left side of the slab are the words OR DO RIAG (Bradley and King 1985, 1, 80). Macalister (1934, 20-1) has read the inscription as: OR DO MAEL DO BORGA[N]. It is now in the church. (Roe 1959, 59; O’Connell 1960, 22)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 January, 2015
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
O'Connell, P. 1959-60. Kells: early and medieval. Ríocht na Mídhe, 2, 1, 18-36; 2, 2, 8-22.
Macalister, R. A. S. 1934 The ancient inscriptions of Kells, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 64, 16-21.
Roe, H. 1959 The High Crosses of Kells. Meath Archaeological Society
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.