Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Portloman, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portloman
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57129, -7.40878
- SMR number
- WM011-145001-
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
Described in 1980 as 'a flat sandstone slab (L 0.67m; Wth 0.28m) with an incised cross in the centre surrounded by a lightly incised pattern of rectangles. This stone lies on the ground about 2m west of the west end of the church (WM011-145----)' (SMR file, 15/10/1980).
See attached rough sketch of graveslab drawn in 1980.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 June 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.