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
- OF005-023326-
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: CLN00326
Dimensions: H 0.54, W 0.33, T 0.065
Outline expansional cross with median line, semicircular looped terminals with fret patterns and circular centre wirh a triple arm spiral . The termianl of the upper cross arm is slanted to the right in order to fit on the slab.
Inscription: Vertically inscribed 'OR AR GILLA GIARAIN'.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1872.
Condition: Complete.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-62, 327, 328, 620
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XLI, no. 105. 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.