Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Inis Ní, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Ní
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39611, -9.89245
- SMR number
- GA050-011004-
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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 limestone cross-slab (H 1.08m; Wth 0.22m; H 0.08m) is located at the SE end of a much-ruined leacht (GA050-011003-). It is decorated with a simple grooved Latin cross (H 0.34m; arm span 0.17m). The top of the cross is rounded and the arms end in roughly T-shaped terminals. The base expands slightly (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 281, no. 12).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 August 2016
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.