Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Castletown And Glinsk, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown And Glinsk
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10053, -7.69813
- SMR number
- OF036-044005-
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
No evidence of any graveslabs in the area marked on the 6-inch ordnance survey map. According to Feehan several graveslabs were recovered from the moat (OF036-044003-) to the SW of Castle Bernard (Feehan 1979, 185).
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
References
Feehan, J. 1979 The Landscape of the Slieve Bloom. A study of its natural and human heritage. Dublin. Blackwater.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.