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
- GA076-011010-
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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-slab is one of two (see also GA076-011006-) associated with the leacht (GA076-011005-) c. 8m to the SW of the church (GA076-011001-) on Mason Island. Recorded by Higgins (1987, vol. 2, 356-7, no. 79), the sandstone slab is subrectangular in shape and is broken along its left side and top. It bears a ringed two-line Greek cross with a human head. The head, at the top of the cross, is oval in outline and has almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose and a slightly open mouth. A ridge below the forehead defines the eyebrows; described by Higgins (ibid.) as a face cross. The cross-slab is currently in the care of the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 27 July 2023
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.