Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Carrowntomush, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowntomush
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62040, -8.82451
- SMR number
- GA016-013005-
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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 the graveyard (GA016-013002-) associated with the church (GA106-013001-). Described by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 373, no. 93) as a sandstone block (H 0.65m; Wth 0.44m; T 0.13m) bearing a ringed two-line Latin cross with single ‘lobes’ in the angles of each arm. The block is broken and the design is incomplete as a result. The surviving terminal on the head of the cross is wedge shaped while that on the surviving arm is straight. Two lines forming slight arcs at the bottom of the cross may have continued to form a semicircle beneath it. Some pieces of mortar on the surface of the block suggest that it was reused as a building stone at some stage. This cross-slab is one of three (see also GA016-013003- and GA016-013004-) recorded by Higgins (ibid., 278, no. 9; 323, no. 49) in the graveyard.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 April 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.