Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland
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
- OF005-023050-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00050
Dimensions: H 0.50, W 0.44, T 0.13
Outline cross with median line inside a two line frame. The inner line of the frame is made up by the outer line of the cross. There is a very worn inscription running along two sides of the frame.
Inscription: Given by Macalister (1909,8) as 'JER…N' suggesting five letters have broken off.
Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905
Condition: Complete but worn, inscription virtually illegible.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-1376
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 106, Fig 6, no. 14. 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.