Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Lorrha, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lorrha
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09198, -8.12111
- SMR number
- TN004-010032-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Rectangular-shaped early Christian sandstone cross-slab (dims. 0.6m x 0.32m x 0.05m) re-used as stone shelf of aumbry located immediately E of S doorway to chapter house at E end of the S wall of the Augustinian priory (TN004-010006-). The upper surface of the sandstone slab is decorated with a framed ringed-cross with hollowed angles carved in false relief with interlace panels on either side of the cross shaft.
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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on information from James Heenan and David Broderick
Date of upload: 27 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.