Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - High cross
Townparks (3rd Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (3rd Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51363, -8.85031
- SMR number
- GA029-184002-
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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
On or close to the site to St John's Priory (GA029-184001-), in Tuam town (GA029-199----). Discovered in 1926, during the construction of a bank (now AIB) at the junction of Vicar St. and Dublin Rd. (Rynne 1986, 126). What survives is the damaged wheeled head of a sandstone cross (D 0.65m) of late 12th- or 13th-C date (ibid., 128-9). The decoration is confined to one face only. Though partly flaked away, it comprises thick, very irregular rings on each arm intertwined with thin, but crudely executed, interlaced lines.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.