Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43160, -8.65707
- SMR number
- SL001-001025-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located adjacent to St. Molaise’s Chapel (SL001-001005-).
Rectangular slab (H: 1.29 m, W: 0.725 m, Th: 0.10 m) with an axially placed miniscule inscription (1.21 m long), running from W to east. It is headed by a short horizontal bar and an equal-armed cross (0.115 m by 0.10 m, cuts 0.015<0.02 m wide, 0.003 m deep) with modest, serifed terminals. The inscription is transcribed: + OR DO CONMURSCE. Translation: ‘Pray for Conmursce’.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.