Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43149, -8.65695
- SMR number
- SL001-001053-
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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 in the ecclesiastical enclosure/cashel (SL001-001001-), lying within the men's cemetery (SL001-001029-) 3 m north of the W gable of Templemolaise church (SL001-001009-)
Slab (L: 1.46 m, W: 0.63 m, Th: 0.12) with false relief ringed cross (0.998 m by 0.495 m). The false relief arms and shaft average 0.1 m wide and the latter terminates in a single axial cut at the base representing a skeuomorphic spike. The slightly irregular ring is formed from handle-shaped areas of false relief between each of the arms. The arms and shaft narrow within the ring to form pronounced arm-pits.
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: 12 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.