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
- GA084-151004-
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
This cross-slab was recorded by Bigger (1900, 84-5) as 'on the low wall in front of the caretaker's cottage' on Inchcleraun Island, Co. Longford (see LF021-048011- for original location). It is now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, Co. Galway). The subrectangular slab (H 0.42m; 0.3m x 0.19m), of fossiliferous limestone, bears a very worn, two-line, incised Latin cross with a circular expansion at the centre. (English 1971, 148; Ciuchini 2010, Stone D, 92, 102, fig. 7)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 June 2012
References
English, N.W. 1971 Field antiquities of County Longford. Journal of the Longford Historical Society 1(2), 146-55.
Ciuchini, P. 2010 Illicit traffic of Irish antiquities: the international case of the Inchcleraun gravestones. Archeomafie 2, 88–102.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
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- Cross - Tau Cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.