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
- 54.43160, -8.65706
- SMR number
- SL001-001058-
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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 loose about 3.5 m east of Teach Molaise (SL001-001005-).
Triangular slab (H: 0.8 m, W: 0.53 m, Th: 0.1 m) with three-cross motif. A horizontal cut near the wide end, 0.045 m long by 0.02 m, is traversed by three fairly evenly spaced vertical cuts, the central one (0.29 m long) slightly longer than the flanking pair. At the three line intersections are dimples 0.02<0.025 m in diameter.
This slab was probably meant to stand upright.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.