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
- OF005-023334-
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: CLN00334
Dimensions: H 0.89, W 0.641, T 0.04
Double outline expansional cross with median line. The looped semicircular terminals have fret pattern and the central expansion (what survives) contains a triple arm spiral. Four zoomorphic animals frame the cross.
Inscription: 'O[R] DO CHOBTHAC'
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822 saw it complete. Macalister saw only four pieces.
Condition: Broken into 5 fragments with right arm missing.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-199, 972
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XIII, no. 32
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 132, Fig 23, no. 1. 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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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.