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
- GA040-013015-
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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 GA040-013013- and GA040-01314-) found by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 285, no. 16) on Inchagoill. This example, now recumbent, is incorporated into the trackway (GA040-013012-) between the two churches: ‘St. Patrick’s Church’ (GA040-013001-) and ‘Templenaneeve’ (GA040-013004-). This example consists of a large subrectangular slab of shale (L 0.9m; Wth 1.18m); parts of it are embedded beneath the adjoining paving slabs. It bears a single-line Latin cross with slightly splayed terminals roughly in its centre. One terminal on the arm of the cross has been broken away.
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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.