Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Kill (omey Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill (omey Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51483, -10.09276
- SMR number
- GA022-043002-
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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
Located in Kill graveyard (GA022-043001-), this cross-slab is reputed to have been brought here from High Island. However, its composition and iconography suggest that it is originally from Caher Island (White Marshall and O’Rouke 200, 159-60, Fig. 125). The slab (H 1m; Wth 0.34m; T 0.07m) bears an outline Latin cross in bold relief which is framed in a sunken background within a weathered margin. There is a large central boss and four smaller ones, one in the centre of each arm. A small projection is evident on both sides of the top arm and this motif is also found on Caher Island (Fisher 2014, 226, no. 63). (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 345, no. 70)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.