Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Churchland, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchland
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07073, -7.79278
- SMR number
- OF039-003013-
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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
Founded by St. Kieran the elder in the fifth century (ITA Survey 1943). Early Christian cross-slab (L 1.65m; Wth 0.65m) that was unearthed in 1938 and described as buried 12 inches below the soil in the graveyard and posessing a well preserved cross incised upon its surface (Gilling 1938, 281, 285). Now housed inside the C of I church.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
References
Gilling, F.H. 1938 A prehistoric burial at Ballybritt, Co. Offaly. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 8C, 161.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.