Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Letter, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11902, -7.65587
- SMR number
- OF037-002004-
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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
Discovered incorporated into the W gable of Cadamstown Church in the 19th-century when recent replastering of the W gable revealed an Early Christian cross-slab (OF037-013002-) that originally came from Letter graveyard (OF037-002002-).
Cross referenced with OF037-013002.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.