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Cross-slab

Cloghnagaune, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Cloghnagaune, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloghnagaune
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.95266, -6.62709
SMR number
WI027-031004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A small cross-slab (H 0.6m; Wth 0.56m) projecting 0.49m above the level of a flat oval slab surrounded by a wall of upright stones, probably forming a penitential station (WI027-031002-). It has a simple Latin cross in relief; both the slab itself and the cross project below the level of the flat slab.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 16 October 2012

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 111/1940).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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