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
- OF005-023307-
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: CLN00307
Dimensions: H 0.46, W 0.445, T 0.105
Triple outline expansional cross with median line. The left arm terminal contains interlace while the upper arm has a debased fret pattern and both are looped. The centre has a spiral pattern formed of 'S' and 'C' curves.
Inscription: 'OR[D]' Macalister and Crawford saw the 'D' but it is no longer visible.
Evidence of discovery: H.S. Crawford 1909.
Condition: Weathered fragment with left/upper arm of cross.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-232, 928
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 134, Fig 25, no. 5. 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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