Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Roscam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roscam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26390, -8.98441
- SMR number
- GA094-072006-
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 medieval graveslab has been placed lying on a 20th-century grave plot in the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. The slab (L 1.16m; Wth across top 0.36m; Wth across base 0.24m; T 0.08m), which tapers from top to bottom, is broken in two pieces. The break is roughly across the lower third of the slab. It bears an incised Latin cross with a beautifully decorated head consisting of seven fleur-de-lis motifs radiating out from a central circular area. The shaft of the cross extends along the length of the slab. A holed stone (GA094-072007-) has also been placed on the grave plot, to the N of the graveslab.
The following image has been uploaded: GA094-072006- Broken graveslab with holed stone (GA094-072007-) to its right
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.