Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Inchbofin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchbofin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54206, -7.91649
- SMR number
- WM015-001014-
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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
Three fragments possibly of the same cross-slab were recorded by Robert Cochrane for the OPW in 1912 and listed as slabs G and H in Appendix E to the 81st Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1912-13 (Anon 1913, 48). Only two of these fragments were catalogued by Crawford in 1913 as slab (h) and described as ‘two fragments 1 ft. 2 in. [0.35m] by 1 ft. [0.3m] and 5 in.[0.12m] by 4 in. [0.1m], showing portions of a three-line cross with expanded ends containing frets, but without loops’ (Crawford 1913, 329). Cross-reference with GA084-151036- as the slab has now been moved to the OPW Depot in Athenry, Co. Galway.
See attached 1912 OPW drawing of cross-slab H (Anon. 1913, 47).
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 23 April 2021
References
Anon. 1913 Eighty-First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland with appendices for the year ending 31st March 1913. London. HMSO.
Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.