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
- OF005-023151-
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: CLN00151
Dimensions: H 0.82, W 0.688, T 0.101
Outline ring cross with square centre. The terminals of the three upper arms of the cross are square, that of the base is rectangular. All four terminals have looped ends.
Inscription: The inscription 'OR AR MAEL QUIARAIN' runs above the cross in two lines.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822
Condition: Complete but worn.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-336, 603
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXIX, no. 76
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 119, Fig 14, 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.