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
- OF005-023053-
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: CLN00053
Dimensions: H 0.35, W 0.36, T 0.03
An outline cross with median line. The inner line of the two line frame is made up by the outer line of the cross. The frame is slightly trapezoid in shape.
Inscription: Below the frame is the inscription 'FOCARTAE' with the 'E' squeezed in beneath the 'A'
Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58
Condition: Broken in half. Only frame, cross arms and stem.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-58, 472, 784. 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.