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
- OF005-023365-
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: CLN00365
Dimensions: H 0.488, W 0.492, T 0.03
The cross is made up of interlace knots joined together, four strands in all. It is a very elaborate and intericate design for a cross slab and best seen from a distance as the lines are incised not in relief.
Inscription: 'FOGARTA[CH]' inscribed horizontally.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822. Refound 1954-58.
Condition: Badly flaked. Only centre/upper/left termianls.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81- 142, 913
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LX, no. 146. 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.