Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Killeigh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeigh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21357, -7.45295
- SMR number
- OF025-017019-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Early Christian ringed cross-slab now located inside the chapter house of the Franciscan friary (OF025-017001-) where it can be seen lying up against the inner face of the W wall in the SW corner of the vaulted building (Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 27-30). Described by Fitzpatrick as an 'Early Christian thistle-cross variant sandstone cross-slab (0.56m x 0.64m x 0.10m). The raised circle enclosing the cross is 0.37m in diameter. Each arm of the cross is 0.11m long with slightly expanded terminals. The four spandrels of the cross are pitted (Fitzpatrick 1992).
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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.