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
- OF005-023199-
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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: CLN00199
Dimensions: H 1.10, W 0.455, T 0.035
Double outline hollow angle ring cross with wedge shaped terminals. Petrie saw the slab complete (left cross arm terminal missing). Macalister only found the upper fragment. The OPW found the lower one in 1954-58.
Inscription: 'O]RDO MAEL [PA]TRIC' running in three lines horizontally around upper cross arm and stem.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822
Condition: In two pieces.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-104, 887, 890
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXV, no. 61
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 120, Fig 15, no. 12. 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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