Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab (present location)
An Fhairche, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Fhairche
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54497, -9.36265
- SMR number
- GA027-027001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This inscribed slab was formerly located in the graveyard (GA027-034001-) associated with 'Rosshill Abbey' (GA027-034----), c. 1km to the NNW, and within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA027-034002-) associated with St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 402). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 381, no. 101) as a limestone slab bearing the inscription OR DO MAELBRENDAIN. The letters are deeply cut by pocking and the inscription occupies only a small portion of the end of the slab. The slab was subsequently moved to the church in An Fhairche/Clonbur (field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/graveslabs/rosshill-cross-slab last accessed 10 January 2019); see GA027-034004- for original location.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 January 2019
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.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.