Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Raheen (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30195, -8.76346
- SMR number
- GA084-151003-
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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 was formerly located on Inchcleraun Island, Co. Longford (see LF021-048010- for original location). It is now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, Co. Galway). Of grey fossiliferous limestone, the round-topped roughly subrectangular slab (H 0.49m; 0.3m x 0.09m) bears a simple Latin cross with expanded triangular-shaped terminals. On the lower left hand quadrant of the slab, there is a small incised double or s-shaped spiral motif. (English 1971, 148; Ciuchini 2010, Stone C, 91-2, 102, fig. 6)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Edited by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 10 March 2023
References
Ciuchini, P. 2010 Illicit traffic of Irish antiquities: the international case of the Inchcleraun gravestones. Archeomafie 2, 88–102.
English, N.W. 1971 Field antiquities of County Longford. Journal of the Longford Historical Society 1(2), 146-55.
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