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
- OF005-023339-
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: CLN00339
Dimensions: H 0.72, W 0.53, T 0.043
Outline expansional cross with median line. The central expansion and looped semicircular terminals all have a fret pattern except for the stem terminal which is blank. The sculptor did not flatten the surface and the bad flaking on the stem is original.
Inscription: Very patchy inscription 'OR DO VALLAIG'.
Evidence of discovery: Found by J. Graves at the Nun's Church.
Condition: Complete but worn. Inscription damaged by flaking.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-388, 390
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XLIV, no. 112
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 133, Fig 24, no. 15. 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.