Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cappagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64310, -8.76048
- SMR number
- GA005-027001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This cross-slab is built into the E face of a leacht or altar (GA005-027----). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 313, no. 39) as a limestone slab (H 0.27m; Wth 0.32m; T 0.08-0.09m) bearing ‘three one-line Latin crosses, one large one and two smaller ones’. The two smaller crosses extend from beneath the arms of the larger one. Four notches were noted in the upper right-hand canton of the smaller cross right-hand cross.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 May 2018
References
Higgins, J.G. 1987 The Early Christian cross slabs, pillar stones and related monuments of County Galway, Ireland, 2 vols. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 375. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.