Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Cashel (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42344, -9.79494
- SMR number
- GA051-002002-
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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 cross-inscribed stone is located within a children’s burial ground (GA051-002001-) that lies in the interior of an enclosure (GA051-002----). It was recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 274, no. 5) who described it as a naturally rounded boulder (H 0.36m; Wth 0.23m; T 0.08m) with a lightly incised Latin cross on its E face. The shaft of the cross bifurcates and widens below the arms, and then narrows and ends in point.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 May 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.