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
- GA021-026048-
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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
Recorded by Fisher (2014, 210, no. 18, Fig. 7.3), this reused cross-slab (L 2.1m; Wth 0.34m; T 0.27m) forms the innermost lintel stone over the doorway of ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-028013-) to the E of the enclosure (GA021-026022-) around the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It is a substantial slab of garnet mica-schist and is cracked at one end. It forms part of the masonry of the cell on both sides of the doorway. The exposed area of the lower face bears an incised linear cross with short crosslets at the ends of the limbs. It is possible that this slab was originally upright and it may have functioned as a termon or boundary marker. (Scally 2014, 96, 198; White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 146, no. 10)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 November 2015
References
Scally, G. 2014 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.
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.
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