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Cross-slab

Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland

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Townland
Clonmacnoise
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
53.32577, -7.98756
SMR number
OF005-023473-

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The National Monuments Service's description

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00473
Dimensions: H 0.77, W 0.88, T 0.07
No cross. An inscription in five lines.
Inscription: 'OROIT AR THURCAIN LASANDERNAN IN [C]HROSA' ' Pray for Turcain who made this cross'.
Evidence of discovery: Graves 1855. Found in a collection of Petrie's drawings published in 1872.
Condition: Worn; lower part of inscription damaged.

National Monuments Service, Photo number: 81-
Stokes, M. (1878) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish language, Vol 1, p LXIV, no. 153. 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.

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