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
- SL001-001083-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This cross-slab was recorded by Wakeman (1893, 118, fig. 59) near the entrance to the ecclesiastical enclosure/cashel (SL001-001001-), but its whereabouts are now unknown.
Slab fragment (H: 0.685 m, W: 0.535 m) whose face was originally filled with a ringed, slightly shafted, outline cross. The upper arms (0.274 m) are only marginally shorter than the shaft (0.305 m), and unlike it they are decorated with semi-circular terminals with straight butts. The ring comprises four curving false relief bands which abut the arms 0.18 m from the crossing. Within this ring the cross arms curve inwards to form hollow 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: 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.