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Graveslab

Cartron Or Old Glebe, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Cartron Or Old Glebe, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cartron Or Old Glebe
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.70245, -8.10793
SMR number
RO036-012004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A graveslab (dims 2.1m x 0.65-0.83m) which has a low relief carving of a cross with fluer-de-lis terminals commemorating Una Dowel with the date 1676 is in the graveyard (RO036-012003-) of Kilgefin church (RO036-012001-). (Corlett 1998, 137-8; Siggins 1996b).

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Corlett, C. 1998 Three new cross-slabs and a Romanesque lintel from county Roscommon. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 7, 137-8.

Siggins, A. 1996b Slab from Kilgriffen. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 6, 122.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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