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Cross (present location)

High Island, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross (present location), High Island, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
High Island
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.54705, -10.25411
SMR number
GA021-052003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Recorded by Fisher (2014, 220-21, no. 51 and no. 52, Fig. 7.8), this cross-base (L 0.58m; Wth 0.47m; T 0.07m) of garnet mica-schist was found in the SE corner of the church enclosure (GA021-026021-) on High Island. It had been reused as a building stone within the enclosure wall. A broken tenon (H 0.1m; Wth 0.15m; T 0.2m) was found in situ in the rectangular socket on the slab. The slab was also pierced by a circular tapering hole, which may have been the upper pivot hole of a doorway and, if this is correct, it is likely that it pre-dates the socket. It is possible that this is the base of cross-slab (GA021-026068-). The base is now in the OPW depot on High Island – see GA021-026071- for original location.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 22 February 2023

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.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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