Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Churchland, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchland
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07232, -7.78785
- SMR number
- OF039-064----
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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 cross-slab that has been incorporated into the wall of the Roman Catholic church located at the foot of Bell Hill which was constructed between 1899-1901. The slab consists of a slab with a triple line incised cross with D-shaped terminals and a pointed base to the cross. The central part of the cross contains a circle within which there is a geometric pattern. Originally this cross-slab came from the nearby monastery of Seir Kieran (OF039-003001-). Same cross-slab as OF039-003015.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.