Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Sevenchurches Or Camaderry, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sevenchurches Or Camaderry
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WI023-009001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not located. According to Leask it was removed to St. Kevin's Church (WI023-009----), but it is no longer there (Leask 1950, fig. 19d, 42). Described by Leask (1950, 42) as a ‘small slab, 2 inches [0.05m] thick. On the west Face a Greek cross with hollowed angles is incised and a small hole is pierced through the centre. It stood 20 feet [6m] west of the Round Tower but has been removed to St. Kevin's Church’.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 December 2012
See linked document with drawing of slab taken from Robert Cochrane Historical and Descriptive Notes with Ground Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Ecclesiastical Remains at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Extract from the Eightieth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1911-12. Dublin, 1925.
References
Leask, H.G. 1950 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow: national monuments vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Dublin. Stationery Office.