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
- OF005-023376-
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: CLN00376
Dimensions: H 0.834, W 0.43-0.21, T 0.10
Outline cross with median line. The three upper terminals are semicircular, the stem one, unusually, square and all are blank. The circular centre contains four quadrants two with fret, one with an interlace knot, matched diagonally. The cross was shaped to fit the slab and may have been upright.
No inscription.
Evidence of discovery: Macalister 1898-1905.
Condition: Complete but some flaking especially in the centre.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-172, 192
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p XXXII, no. 85. 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.