Tower, Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly

Tower, Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly

Tower

Cross

Lantern slide depicting the Great Cross and Round Tower in the Clonmacnoise monastic site in Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly. Originally titled 'GREAT CROSS_BACK & RIGHT SIDE ALSO SHOWING ROUND TOWER & ENTRANCE, CLONMACNOISE THOMAS H. MASON, 5-6 DAME ST., DUBLIN, C.I 799 1/1' and labelled 'K4 41'. The monuments depicted are of O Rourke's Tower and a High Cross called South Cross, found in Clonmacnoise Monastic site. The Round Tower is situated in the north-west corner of the Monastic Site. A wall was built in 1957 brining the tower inside the walls of the monastic complex. The tower is composed of well-shaped rectangular grey limestone blocks to the level of the bell-storey windows where obvious reconstruction work uses smaller and more irregular stone. The tower was built by Turlough O Connor and O Malone c.1124. It was damaged by lightning in 1135 and the present top with its eight openings is of later date. The South Cross has multiple scenes from the bible carved onto it, and was moved from its original position in 1991 amd replaced with replicas in order to protect these carvings. Indeed, in the image depcited it can be seen that the cross was in a delapidated state.

Holly Cooper

The Discovery Programme

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI)

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BOX37_051

RSAI, Lantern Slide, BOX 37

25/01/17

Scanned to 2400 dpi , 16 bit greyscale image with automatic exposure

RSAI Lantern Slide Collection

114.3mb

7559 x 7559 pixels

Lantern Slides

Country: Ireland

County: Offaly

Logainm Code: https://www.logainm.ie/100031.aspx

Townland: Clonmacnoise

Logainm Town/Townland: https://www.logainm.ie/41215.aspx

Irish National Grid East: 200962

Irish National Grid North: 230644

Position Source: www.logainm.ie

Latitude: 53.326277

Longitude: -7.9862945

Place: Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly Latitude: 53.3262773 Longitude: -7.986294499999985

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI)