Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Lynally Glebe, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lynally Glebe
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26361, -7.55492
- SMR number
- OF016-033002-
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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
Two early Christian cross-slabs (OF016/033001/002-) now in the National Museum (collection L 1935:3-4) were discovered in a mound or fort (OF016-033----) in the field immediately to the S of the motte (JRSAI 26, 320). Small circular earthwork indicated on first edition of the OS 6-inch map and surveyed in 1942 for the ITA survey. This earthwork was described in 1942 as 'A low mound with very little depth of soil , close to mote, no clear traces of fosse or ramparts, rising about 6 feet from surrounding field and close to mote. Now tilled. Shown as fort on 1835 OS 6-inch map. In it found two cross-slabs, now in Dublin Museum and human teeth' (ITA Survey 1942).
(O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 32; Moran 1962, 45; Reynolds-Dunlevy and Haworth 1975, 59; Loeber 1981, 290)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.