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
- OF005-023461-
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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: CLN00461
Dimensions: H 1.52, W 0.54, T 0.085
Double outline cross with a circular centre inside a single line rectilinear frame. There is a rosette at the cente, a foliage design at the base and a debased design on the left arm of the cross. Now located in Temple Ciaran, Clonmacnoise.
Inscription: 'OR DO CH…CEN MAEL R]OIN HU LORGAN'. The inscription in the right two cantons has gone.
Evidence of discovery: Petrie 1822.
Condition: Very worn and spilt in two. Top and base damaged.
National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-356, 499
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LXIX, no. 166 (Possible ???)
Lionard, Early Irish Grave-slabs, PRIA 60(1959-60), p 107, Fig 7, no. 1. 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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