Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ballynew (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynew (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55799, -10.08198
- SMR number
- GA022-004001-
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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
Within a children’s burial ground (GA022-004001-). This round-headed cross-slab (L 0.35m; Wth 0.24-0.27m; T 0.03-0.04m) is of gneisse or schist and is covered with moss and lichen. The head was created by breaking off spalls of stone to create semicircular notches on either side of the stone (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 395, no. 115).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 October 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.