Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Inchagoill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchagoill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48556, -9.31592
- SMR number
- GA040-013013-
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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 is one of three cross-inscribed stones (see also GA040-013014- and GA040-01315-) found by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 275, no. 6) on Inchagoill. This example, which consists of a limestone block (L 0.58m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.12-0.13m), now serves as a step in a style in a wall between ‘St. Patrick’s Church’ (GA040-013001-) and ‘Templenaneeve’ (GA040-013004-). It bears a crudely pocked Greek cross and four small dots or pock marks, one between each of the arms of the cross. It most likely is a reused gravestone.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 February 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
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.