Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Croughal, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croughal
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49677, -7.53665
- SMR number
- WM025-005004-
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
Conry church ruins (WM025-005001-) stands inside an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure on a natural rise of ground surrounded by poorly drained land known as the 'Island of Conry'. On the 1656-9 Down Survey map of Churchtown parish this townland was known as 'Conry & Cloghoule' (NLI, MS 723-4), the latter was anglicised to the present Croughal which lies in the parish of Churchtown. In 1641 the lands of Conry and Cloghoule belonged to Henry Dalton who is listed in the Down Survey as an 'Irish papist' (ibid.).
A cross-inscribed slab (WM025-005004-) is located immediately S of the broken out doorway into Conry Church (WM025-005001-) and its location is indicated on a plan of the church and earthworks (SMR file). A second cross-inscribed graveslab (WM025-005003-) lies 8m NW of Conry church ruins.
See attached plan for location of cross-slab, site plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 05 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.