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Cross-inscribed pillar

Inchagoill, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed pillar, Inchagoill, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inchagoill
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48544, -9.31548
SMR number
GA040-013010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This cross-inscribed pillar stone is located within ‘Templenaneeve’ (GA040-013004-) and is fastened to the S wall of the church. According to Higgins (1987, vol. II, 301, no. 29) the slender limestone pillar (H 0.66m; Wth 0,85m; T 0.1-0.12m) was once broken in two but it has since been repaired with a thick layer of concrete. It bears a pocked one-line Latin cross with expanded or wedge-shaped terminals. Another cross-slab is pinned to the wall to its E – see GA040-013009-.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Edited by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 2 August 2022

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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