Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
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
- 53.30463, -9.91722
- SMR number
- GA076-020028-
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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 on the leacht (GA076-020010-) c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA076-020001-) on Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island. An undecorated limestone slab (L 1.57m; Wth 0.49m at N end, 0.44m at S end; T 0.05-0.11m) visible at the NW end of the leacht may be the shaft of a cross. The slab tapers slightly from N to S and also increases in thickness from N to S. Higgins (1987, ii, 409, no. 126) suggested that the slab could have been part of ‘a large cross shaft’ or part of ‘a large pillar-like monument’. Another cross (GA076-020016-) and a cross-slab (GA076-020009-) are associated with this leacht.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 June 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.