Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Newtown (navan Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (navan Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55754, -6.76865
- SMR number
- ME036-069----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the present locaiton for a Rathdown-type slab from Tully church, Laughanstown (DU026-023011-). In 1870 it was recorded as standing half-buried to the south of the nave of the church. It bears a Latin ringed cross in slight relief (L 1.05m, Wth 0.55m, T 0.13m) with a small cupmark on each arm and one at the intersection. There is a semi-spherical boss under each arm and herringbone design at the base. (Ó hÉalidhe 1973, 56-57). The slab was taken into storage by the OPW in 1989 (Swords 2009, 135).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 September 2014
References
Swords, K. (ed.) 2009 Pre-Norman grave-slabs and cross-inscribed stones in the Dublin region. 2009 edition of an NUIG MA thesis prepared in 1985. Tallaght, Dublin. Local Studies Section, South Dublin Library.
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1973 Early Christian graveslabs in the Dublin region. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 103, 51-64.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.