Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Toomour, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toomour
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03955, -8.43219
- SMR number
- SL040-140009-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). One of three cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140005-; SL040-140010-) associated with the leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-). A rectangular slab (0.47m x 0.32m; T 0.05m), on top of the leacht cuimhne, is incised with a double rectangular frame (there is a third line on one side) within which is a pattern of crossed lines described by Crawford (1913b, 165) as a 'combined cross and saltire'. O'Rorke ([1889] vol. 2, 213) recorded that this slab is known locally as the 'Altar-table' and some human bones were found under it following an exploration of the leacht cuimhne, instigated by Terence O'Rorke prior to 1889 (ibid., 214).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 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.