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
- OF005-023346-
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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: CLN00346
Dimensions: H 0.36, W 0.23, T 0.045
Conventional outline expansional cross with median line except for an additional line along the stem, beneath the left terminal, on the upper arm and above the right arm. The looped terminals and centre have fret pattern.
Inscription: Part of the inscription survives '+[OR]DO CEN[NE]DIG'.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Refound 1909-1949.
Condition: There has been a lot of damage to this stone.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-114, 943
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LXXIV, no. 178
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 133, Fig 24, no. 13. 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.