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
- OF005-023224-
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: CLN00224
Dimensions: H 0.492, W 0.353, T 0.03
Double outline ring cross with hollow angles inside a four line frame. The line of the cross make up the lines of the frame. The centre is lozenge shaped and when the angles are included forms a roundel.
Inscription: Possible inscription has flaked away.
Evidence of discovery: OPW 1954-58
Condition: Right arm and stem of cross and part of frame gone.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-1, 3, 10, 820. 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.