Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Killaraght, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaraght
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93325, -8.35314
- SMR number
- SL047-083009-
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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
The following account of its discovery is recorded by Timoney (2008-9): ‘In April 2007, on a visit to Killaraght graveyard. Co. Sligo, to check an 18th century headstone the author discovered an Early Christian cross slab which had been reused as a grave memorial in recent times. The Old Red Sandstone slab was lying on the ground in front of the Goldrick family grave plot in the old section of the graveyard. The slab measures 99cm long, the upper two thirds is about 40cm in width with a maximum thickness of 8.5cm. The left side of the slab is complete but parts of the right side have been cut or broken off. The inscribed cross with T-shaped terminals measures 14.5cm long and 21cm wide. The cross is cut in a V-section groove with a maximum of 1.5cm in width and a depth of 0.5cm. The terminals are U-shaped in section.’
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 May 2017
References
Timoney, M.A. 2008-9 Killaraght Early Christian cross slab. Corran Herald, no. 41, 77.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Hospitalunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.