Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Smithstown, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Smithstown
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24282, -7.87147
- SMR number
- OF022-011----
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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
Situated on flat low-lying land in undulating countryside. Known locally as the 'Friars Cross' this flat rectangular slab (L 1.2m; Wth 0.46m) has a simple ring headed cross decorated in relief with hollowed angles between the arms of the cross. No inscription visible on the graveslab. According to local tradition it marks the resting place of a Bishop Mac Coughlan who was killed in 1444. (Crawford 1916, 166; Cooke 1856-7, 380-5)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.