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
- OF005-023329-
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: CLN00329
Dimensions: H 0.36, W 0.302, T 0.044
Outline expansional cross with median line, looped semicircular terminals with fret patterns, (upper terminal very worn but apparently similar) and a central expansion with triple arm spiral. The stone appears to have been squared off for reuse.
Inscription: Two letters from a vertical inscription survive 'U M'.
Evidence of discovery:
Condition: Very worn. Right arm damaged and stem broken off.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-179. 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.