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
- SMR number
- GA094-072015-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This early Christian cross-slab was noted by Higgins (1992, 209-12) in a section of the field wall between the round tower (GA0094-072004-) and the church (GA094-072001-) in the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. The oblong slab of sandstone (L 0.52m; Wth 0.34m; T 0.13-14m) bears a crudely pocked single-line Latin cross which is set off-centre within a subrectangular frame. The slab has been crudely worked but its shape is natural and unaltered. It seems unlikely that it was set upright but was rather a recumbent cross-slab that was laid on a grave (ibid.). Another early Christian cross-slab (GA094-072012-) is located within the graveyard (GA094-072003-).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 May 2017
References
Higgins, J. 1992 An early Christian cross-slab from Roscam Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 44, 209-12.