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
- SMR number
- SL001-001080-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to the original location of a fragment of a cross-slab, which was removed from an unspecified location (probably the Cashel (SL001-001001-) to the National Museum of Ireland in 1971 (No. 1971: 1114). Its present location is recorded under the number: DU018-218----.
Triangular slab fragment (H: 0.2 m, W: 0.192 m, Th: 0.052 m) with base of elaborate cross motif. Two parallel false relief ridges descend and converge just before terminating in a point 0.09 m below upper surface. 0.08 m below this point is the trough of a V-shaped motif, the arms of which ascend to each side of the point and evolve into two-turn mirrored spirals.
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: 20 February 2018
References
Wakeman, W.F. 1893 Survey of the Antiquarian Remains on the Island of Inishmurray. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (special volume 1893. London.