Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross (present location)
Slane, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slane
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71037, -6.54142
- SMR number
- ME019-025001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The fragment of a high cross (Wth 0.6m; H 0.56m; T 0.24m) that came to light in Fennor graveyard (ME019-036001-) in 1991 is now displayed at the W end of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church in Slane. The original W face has a crucifixion while the E has perhaps six bosses in an interlace pattern. (Harbison 1990-91, 138-42)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 July, 2014
References
Harbison, P. 1990-91 Meath high-cross fragments - lost and found. Ríocht na Mídhe 8, No. 3, 134-4.
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.