Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Carrownaseer North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaseer North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64300, -8.72819
- SMR number
- GA005-035005-
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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
Within a children’s burial ground (GA005-035007-) associated with the church (GA005-035002-). This rectangular limestone cross-slab (L 0.9m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.07m) was recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 318, no. 44). It bears a two-line Greek cross, the arms of which are open at the sides of the slab. The stone had originally been upright but, according to local information, it was reused to cover the grave of the last child to be buried in the burial ground in the late 1950s. A tau cross (GA005-035006-) was also reused as a grave-marker.
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
- Cross - Tau crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.