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
- GA094-072011-
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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 (L 1.84m; Wth across top 0.6m; base Wth 0.48m) is lying on a possible stone-lined grave plot in the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. The sides of the slab, which tapers from top to bottom and also decreases in thickness from the top (T 0.12m) towards the bottom (Wth 0.08m), are bevelled. It is broken in two just below the mid-way point and a small portion of the top of the lower portion is also fractured. It bears a two-line Latin cross in false relief within a frame. The head and arms of the cross end in fleur-de-lis motifs and there appears to be four other similar motifs extending from the top and sides of the slab into towards the centre of the cross. The shaft of the cross extends along the length of the slab.
The following image has been uploaded: GA094-072011- View from S
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.