Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Killeigh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeigh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21354, -7.45295
- SMR number
- OF025-017020-
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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 decorated with a Maltese cross now located inside the chapter house of the friary (OF025-017001-) (Fitzpatrick and O'Brien 1998, 27-30). Described by Ftizpatrick as a small block of sandstone (dims. 0.28m x 0.25m x 0.18m) decorated with a greek cross-in-circle framed within a rectangular moulding (Fitzpatrick 1992).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.