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
- 53.54473, -10.26120
- SMR number
- GA021-026058-
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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, 214, no. 34, Fig. 7.6), this redeposited kite-shaped cross-slab (H 0.51m; Wth 0.31m; T 0.03m) of garnet mica-schist was found within the stepped NW passage through the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA021-026022-) on High Island. Its foot and left edge are broken. One face is decorated. It bears a Latin cross, partly in outline and partly in low relief, around a linear cross with a central roundel. The latter encloses an incised linear Greek cross. The side-arms have D-shaped terminals and the upper and lower ones are forked. There are also linear Latin crosses in the lower quadrants of slab.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 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.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.