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
- GA021-026064-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This cross-slab was recorded by White Marshall and Rourke (2000, 144-5, no. 7) who found it on the plinth on the S side of ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-026013-) to the E of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It was a roughly cruciform cross-slab (H 1.08m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.12m) of garnet mica-schist. One face was decorated with an outline Latin cross, carved in relief, with slightly expanded terminals. Another Latin cross with forked terminals was superimposed on this. The right arm was damaged. This cross-slab is now missing (Fisher 2014, 218, no. 41, Fig. 7.7).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 November 2015
References
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.