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
- GA021-026073-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This undecorated L-shaped fragment of a cross-slab (H 0.62m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.02m) was found on rubble outside the W wall of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. Of garnet mica-schist, it consists of the head and upper left arm, suggesting that the cross-slab was cruciform in shape. The fragment is missing (Fisher 2014, 222, no. 55, Fig. 7.9). (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 157, no. 32)
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.