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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
OF005-023136-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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: CLN00136
Dimensions: H 0.18, W 0.29, T 0.065
Outline ring cross inside a one line rectilinear frame. There is a linear cross with wedge-shaped terminals in the centre of the cross. The cantons have diagonals crossing them.
Inscription: Petrie saw half the slab and recorded the inscription 'OR THANACH (?)'
Evidence of discovery: Found in 1872 by Petrie, lost by 1909 and refound by the OPW 1954-58.
Condition: Part of left cross arm and centre survive.

National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-297, 484. 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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