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
- 53.54474, -10.26119
- SMR number
- GA021-026093-
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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
Higgins (1987, vol. II, no. 67) records that this cross-slab is incorporated in the ‘cashel or enclosing wall’ (GA021-026022-) around the monastic site on High Island. His description is based on a photograph. The slab bears a roughly equal-armed three-line cross with D-shaped terminals and a central roundel. The right and left terminals have key patterns but the detail in the top and bottom terminals is unclear. The central roundel has a cruciform centre with a small boss in the middle. There are faint indications of a small roundel in the upper left canton of the cross. Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 May 2016
References
Higgins, J.G. 1987 The Early Christian cross slabs, pillar stones and related monuments of County Galway, Ireland, 2 vols. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 375. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.