Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
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
- GA094-072012-
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 small early Christian sandstone cross-slab (H 0.4m; base Wth 0.38m; T 0.14m) is embedded in the ground in the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. The slab is roughly subrectangular in plan and rounded across the top. It bears a deeply incised but crudely punched single-line equal-armed cross. The arms (Wth c. 0.1m) appear to expand slightly towards the terminals. Another similar cross-slab (GA094-072015-) is also associated with this site.
The following image has been uploaded: GA094-072012-_03
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 23 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.