Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43252, -8.64821
- SMR number
- SL001-004010-
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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
Found in Relickoran cemetery (SL001-004003-) during excavation in August 1999, one of two cross-slabs (see also SL001-004009-) located in superficial rubble spreads on the S side of a leacht (SL001-004002-). Now in the Schoolhouse/OPW conservation store.
Sub-rectangular slab (H: 0.275 m, W: 0.165 m, Th: 0. 097 m) with shafted cross (0.144 m by 0.13 m) formed of four entirely discrete cuts that widen slightly towards the centre of the motif before terminating in acute projections. The ridge along part of the upper and left hand edges of the slab may be natural.
The above description is derived from the results of a programme of survey and excavation undertaken in 1997-2000 on Inishmurray 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: 19 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.