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
- Coordinates
- 53.54479, -10.26121
- SMR number
- GA021-026047-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Wakeman (1839b) depicted this cross-slab in 1839 as free-standing in the background of a drawing of the W façade of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 16, 100-2, 146, no. 11). It is now set into the internal face of the E wall of the enclosure (GA021-026021-) around the church. Fisher (2014, 208, no. 17, Figs. 7.3, 7.12) notes that it was probably inserted here during the rebuilding of the enclosure. The cross-slab (H 0.62m; Wth 0.56m; T 0.07m), now incomplete, is of garnet mica-schist with quartz veins. It bears an incised outline Latin cross with deep roughly circular hollows at the crossing of the arms with the shaft of the cross. The lateral limbs originally extended to the edges. The top and right arms are missing.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 November 2015
References
Fisher, I. (revised by Scally, G. and Maddern, C.) 2014 Catalogue of cross-slabs. In G. Scally, High Island (Ardoileán), Co. Galway: Excavation of an early medieval monastery. Archaeological Monograph Series 10. Dublin. The Stationery Office.
White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G.D. 2000 High Island: an Irish monastery in the Atlantic. Dublin. Town House and Country House.
Wakeman, W.F. 1839b Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 T 16.
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