Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slanecastle Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71715, -6.54315
- SMR number
- ME019-111----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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
Harbison (1997, 171-6) identified a fragment of a high cross built into the stonework of the church and subsequently removed to OPW headquarters in 1994 (ME019-112). The interlace panel has been compared with that on crosses at Clonmacnoise and Kells suggesting a date of c. 950-1000 (Seaver, M. & Brady, C. 2011).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 29 March 2012
References
Harbison, P. 1997 A shaft-fragment from Slane, Co. Meath, and other high cross discoveries. In C. Manning (ed.), Dublin and beyond the Pale: essays in honour of Paddy Healy, 171-6. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.