Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Oileán Máisean, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oileán Máisean
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30049, -9.88621
- SMR number
- GA076-011006-
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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
On top of a leacht (GA076-011005-), near its NW corner. This subrectangular cross-slab (H 0.94m; Wth at top 0.32m; base Wth 0.25m; T 0.07m) is of limestone and it tapers towards its base. The inscribed cross (H c. 0.55m; armspan Wth 0.23m; shaft Wth 0.07m) faces W and consists of a two-line Latin cross with splaying terminals at the arms and top. The shaft rises from a rectangular base. There are two downward loops at the end of the shaft and the base is divided into two unequal sections by a vertical groove (Higgins 1987, vol. 2. 334, no. 60). The E face of the slab is rough, uneven and undressed. Another cross-slab (GA076-011010-) is associated with the leacht (ibid., 356-7, no. 79).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 April 2014
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.