Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Churchland, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchland
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.07074, -7.79278
- SMR number
- OF039-003018-
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
Founded by St. Kieran the elder in the fifth century (ITA Survey 1943). In 1916 Crawford described this slab as 'a small block of sandstone bearing an incised cross potent, the lower extremity of which is plain' (Crawford 1916, 166). This cross-slab is now housed within the C of I church.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
References
Crawford, H.S. 1916 Supplementary list of early cross-slabs and pillars. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 46, 163-7.
Nearby in the register
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.