Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51452, -8.85264
- SMR number
- GA029-180005-
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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 cross was recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 385, no. 185) who noted it outside the E window of
'Temple Jarlath' (GA029-180001-). It is of sandstone (H 0.7m; Wth across the arms 0.41m; Wth of shaft 0.23m; T 0.05m) and is set loosely in the ground. It appears to be in a secondary position. The cross is roughly cut and the right-hand arm is almost completely gone. A spall has been knocked off the left arm.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 May 2018
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.