Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Cara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30413, -9.91694
- SMR number
- GA076-020008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located just above the landing place at Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island, just 6m to the N of another cross-slab (GA076-002007-). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 387, no. 107) as a plain limestone slab (H 0.96m; Wth 0.61m) with a solid disc-shaped head. The surface is indented with natural fissures. (Crawford 1907, 211)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 June 2018
References
Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 326-34.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.