Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab
Lugduff (ballinacor North By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lugduff (ballinacor North By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.00418, -6.34688
- SMR number
- WI023-028008-
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
Located 1.3m S of E end of nave of Reefert church (WI023-008001-) (Leask 1950, fig. 18d, 40-1). Described by Leask (1950, 40) as a ‘slab, 5 feet 4 inches [1.5m] by 2 feet [0.6m]. Cross of six fine incised lines making four panels within a two-line frame. Circle at centre and half-circles at extremities. The surface is much scaled away. S of the Church’.
This inscribed slab measuring 1.63m x 0.6m was described by Macalister (1949, 83) as located `at the Reefert church (WI023-028001-), lying in the graveyard opposite the S.E. angle of the nave (Board of Works Report, No. 74)' there is a slab with a latin cross formed of six lines with an inscription much worn which reads O~R~DO[--] || [--]DO[MN]OGG which can be expanded in to OROIT DO [--]DO[MN]OGG' .
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy & 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.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.