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
- GA084-151023-
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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
Originally from High Island (see GA021-026057-). Recorded by Fisher (2014, 214, no. 33, Fig. 7.6), this is one of two cross-slabs (see also GA084-151022-) that were found from the paved floor of ‘Cell A’, the clochan (GA021-026012-) to the N of the church (GA021-026014-). The cross-slab (H 0.54m; Wth 0.24m; T 0.04m) of garnet mica-schist is cruciform in shape and is broken obliquely at the foot and damaged at the right side. The cross-head of one face is decorated with a weathered linear Greek cross. (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 156, no. 30)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 November 2015
References
Fisher, I. (revised by Scally, G. and Maddern, C.) 2014 Catalogue of cross-slabs. In G. Scally, High Island (Ardoileán), Co. Galway: Excavation of an early medieval monastery. Archaeological Monograph Series 10. Dublin. The Stationery Office.
White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G.D. 2000 High Island: an Irish monastery in the Atlantic. Dublin. Town House and Country House.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.