Cross-slab (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

Displayed and stored in Nenagh Heritage Centre are a collection of four cross-slabs and quern stones. The Centre is on the west side of O'Rahilly Street, a former jail turned convent school. In the collection there is a decorated quern stone and four cross-slabs. All the slabs are from St. Odhran's Monastery, Latteragh. They are decorated with an incised cross surrounded by a single or double incised circle. Dorothy Kelly has described them in detail in JRSAI 1988, 92-100. In the basement there are seven quern stones, two of which are decorated. There is also a mortar with a sign '15th century monastic bowl' and a broken stone ring.

One of three cross-slabs discovered in 1977 during the digging of a grave in the O'Brien family plot in Latteragh Graveyard (TN028-025002). A fourth cross-slab was discovered during the digging of the Berkery family plot. Both plots were located to the N of the N wall of Latteragh Church. All of the slabs (TN028-025003; TN028-025006; TN028-025007; TN028-025008) consisted of a dense, fine grained stone.

Described as Latteragh 1 by D. Kelly and consists of a tiny slab (0.21m x 0.17m x 0.05m ) decorated with a carved equal armed cross with expanding arms contained within a broad circle. The arms of the cross nearly touch the circle within the which the cross is inscribed(Kelly 1988, 92-100) (TN028-025003).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008