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Cross-slab

Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonmacnoise
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
53.32577, -7.98756
SMR number
OF005-023041-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00041
Dimensions: H 0.45, W 0.425, T 0.015
Petrie's drawing of this slab is totally inaccurate. A series of interlocking outline crosses inside a single line frame. The pattern has completely broken down on the left side of the slab. The inscription is in a panel beneath the frame.
Inscription: 'TIRUCIST'. The inscription is very worn.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Later lost but found again by the OPW 1954-58
Condition: Upper part of the design has been lost.

National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-374, 813
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LXV, no. 156
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 105, Fig 5, no. 8. The Clonmacnoise inventory was compiled by the Office of Public Works. A copy of the record for this slab is available for inspection in the relevant Archaeological Survey of Ireland (SMR) file.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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