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 indcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72688, -6.87235
- SMR number
- ME017-044037-
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
Embedded in the ground at the E end of St. John’s graveyard (ME017-044035-) is a small sandstone cross-slab (Wth 0.33m; H 0.23m; T 6cm) with an incised ringed cross (Wth of stem 5cm). (Bradley and King, 1985, 83; Mc Cabe 2007, 140-1)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 July, 2014
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Mc Cabe, B. 2007 Survey of St. John's Graveyard, Kells. Ríocht na Mídhe, 18, 136-150.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.