Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Skreen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skreen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58596, -6.56324
- SMR number
- ME032-047006-
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
A graveslab with the head of a man in relief is inside the locked ground floor of the tower of Skreen church (ME032-047003-). It has been be dated to the first quarter of the 15th century by Hunt (1974, 1, 213) who describes it as:
Attached to the west wall on the ground floor of the belfry is a wedge-shaped slab with raised borders. Down the centre of the field is carved a cross of simple form standing upon a base, charged with a shield. The stem of the cross is broad for three-quarters of its height. There is a moulding at this point and it continues as a narrower stem with chamfered sides and arms. Above the head of the cross, beneath a semi-circular arch of simple form, there is a head of a man, too fragmentary to show details. He wears a hat with a broad semi-circular brim and expanding crown. The upper part of the hat seems to be fluted. The type recalls Burgundian modes and suggests a date in the first quarter of the fifteenth century.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January, 2015
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.