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
- OF005-023337-
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: CLN00337
Dimensions: H 0.575, W 0.265, T 0.12
Outline expansional cross with median line. The semicircular terminal and circular central expansions have fret patterning. Presently located at St. Ciaran's Well a quarter mile from Clonmacnoise to the south.
Inscription: Down the right side 'ORDO FECTN[ACH]' preceded by an initial cross.
Evidence of discovery: Drawn by Petrie at Clonmacnoise in 1822.
Condition: Complete but very worn and covered in lichen.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXXII, no. 83
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 102, Fig 1, no. 9. 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.