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Cross-slab

Lemanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Lemanaghan, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lemanaghan
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.29340, -7.74426
SMR number
OF015-004021-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A monastery at Lemanaghan (Liath Manchán) was founded in the 7th century by Manchán whose feastday is celebrated on the 24th of January (Ó Riain 2011, 429). Early Christian cross-inscribed slab currently located inside the disused Lemanaghan schoolhouse. Described by Crawford (1911, 152-3) as a ‘sandstone slab of irregular shape, fine in grain and yellow-brown in colour. The dimensions are 23 inches (0.58m) by 15 inches (0.38m) by 4½ inches (0.11m) thick. The carving takes the form of a ringed cross of two lines, incised and filling the entire length of the stone. The lower end of the shaft is pointed and the top furnished with loops. The arm may have had similar loops, but they cannot now be made out with any certainty. The stone is lying against the boundary-wall in the north west corner of the graveyard (OF015-004004-)’.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 25 April 2014

References

Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.

Crawford, H.S. 1911 The early slabs at Lemanaghan, King's County. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 151-6.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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