Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
An Choill Bheag íochtair, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Choill Bheag íochtair
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55409, -9.36855
- SMR number
- GA027-034003-
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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
Located in the graveyard (GA027-034001-) surrounding the church (GA027-034----) and within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA027-034002-) associated with St Brendan of Clonfert (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 402). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 279, no. 10) as a cross-inscribed sandstone pillar (L 1.33m; Wth 0.22m; T 0.22m) partly covered with moss and lichen. Both its E and W faces bear a simple deeply pocked equal-armed cross. The pillar is set in a shallow socket and is most likely in a secondary position. When recorded by Higgins (ibid.) it was almost recumbent. (Purefoy Colles 1870, 268)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 May 2018
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
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.
Purefoy Colles, J.A. 1870 Proceedings: ogham stone at Ross Hill, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 11, 268.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.