Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
High Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- High Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA021-026029-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Recorded by Wakeman (1891, 354, Plate I, no. 49), this is a two-line Latin cross with a central roundel. The arms and top of the cross are open ended but the base is closed. Not located. (Lionard 1961, 105; Higgins 1987, vol. II, 321, no. 47)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 January 2016
References
Wakeman, W.F. 1891 On the earlier forms of inscribed Christian crosses found in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 350-58.
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.
Lionard, P. 1961 Early Irish grave-slabs. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 61C, 95-161.