Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Clone, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clone
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56800, -6.50429
- SMR number
- WX015-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the N edge of a plateau in the valley of a small E-W stream, which is c. 50m to the NE, and c. 40m SE of Clone church (WX013-023001-), with a fold in the land between the location and the church. It was described as being on a mound with the sundial (WX015-023004-) and perhaps other cross-slabs (Ffrench 1895). This is an upright slab (total H c. 1.02m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.26m) with an incised Maltese cross in a circle (diam. 0.29m) on one face. It was first described by Du Noyer (1864-6, 443) in this position when it was facing W, but it was moved to a position (WX015-023012-) in the graveyard (WX015-023002-) during the 1990s. At the moment it is temporarily in storage at the OPW depot in Kilkenny (see KK019-026410-).
See the attached image from the National Monuments Service Photographic Archive
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 23 August, 2018
Amended: 14 July 2022
References
Du Noyer, G. V. 1864-6 Early Irish and pre-Norman antiquities. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 9, 423-444.
Ffrench, Rev. J. F. M. 1895 Excursions in County Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 25, 403-11.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.