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
- OF005-023086-
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: CLN00086
Dimensions: H 0.56, W 0.355, T 0.035
Double outline cross with rectangular terminals and centre inside a three line frame, the inner two lines of which are made up by the cross.
Inscription: 'ADMOER INGEN DUNA' above the frame is in two lines, the second above the first.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822
Condition: Some weathering. Left side of slab damaged.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81- 109, 478, 755
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXVIII, no. 72
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 113, Fig 10, no. 6. 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.