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
- OF005-023351-
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: CLN00351
Dimensions: H 0.475, W 0.31, T 0.036
Outline expansional cross with median line and blank semicircular terminal . The circular centre (now lost) had fret patterning.
Inscription: Part of an inscription survives: '[OR DO MAEL] PHA[TRAIC]'.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Slab three quarters complete then. Broken since 1905 when centre remained.
Condition: Only left cross arm and partial inscription remain.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-897, 898
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LVII, no.140. 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.