Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ardmulchan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardmulchan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67341, -6.62701
- SMR number
- ME025-020002-
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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
In the graveyard (ME025-020001-) of Ardmulchan parish church (ME025-020----) is a sandstone cross-slab (H 0.62-0.66m; Wth 0.38-48m; T 0.1m) with a raised ringed cross (int. diam. 0.25m; ext. diam. 36m), which may be the slab noted by Wilde (1850, 142) as re-used on a doorway in the church tower.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 July, 2014
References
Wilde, W. 1850 The beauties of the Boyne and its tributary, the Blackwater (2nd ed). Dublin. McGlashan.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.