Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cloonown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36824, -7.94083
- SMR number
- RO055-003003-
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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
On a level landscape. A fragment of a cross-slab (dims 0.3m x 0.15m) was found in a wall of the old Roman Catholic church and is now preserved in the entrance porch of the new church (Fanning and O hEailidhe 1980, 13; Herity et al. 1997,116).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.