Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Lemanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.