Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ballinaboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64577, -8.12806
- SMR number
- RO040-014002-
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
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. A cross-slab (dims. 0.52m x 0.48m; T 0.15m) with an incised ringed cross and an inscription interpreted as CROBRAN (Fanning and O'hÉailidhe 1980, 14-16; Herity et al. 1997, 114) was always here, but is now in NMI (Scott 2000; O'Mahony 2005, 20).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Mahony, P. 2005 Roscommon artefacts in the National Museum of Ireland. County Roscommon Heritage Forum
Fanning, T. and Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1980 Some cross-inscribed slabs from the Irish Midlands. In H. Murtagh (ed.), Irish Midland studies: essays in commemoration of N.W. English, 5-23. Athlone. Old Athlone Society.
Herity, M., Kelly, D. and Mattenberger, U. 1997 List of Early Christian cross-slabs in seven north-western counties. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 127, 89-124.
Scott, P. 2000 “Significant find” of 8th century stone. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 8, 11.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.