Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Rahan Demesne, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahan Demesne
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27900, -7.61287
- SMR number
- OF016-015012-
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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
In 1914 Walter Fitzgerald recorded two fragments of what he described as a plain shaft of a limestone cross placed to the right of the west doorway of the Church of Ireland building (OF016-015001-). Faint traces of an inscription revealed that this cross was carved in 1616 by Cormack O Boghaile (JAPMDI 9, no. 2, 1914, 106). Two pieces of the upper end of this floriated graveslab have been rediscovered recently in the graveyard (OF016-015002-). They are now lying up against the inner face of the W wall of the graveyard to the W of the doorway of the Church of Ireland Church (Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1988, 145-6).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.