Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Shanbally (killeely Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanbally (killeely Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.22989, -8.76846
- SMR number
- GA096-159003-
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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
Located within the W half of a children’s burial ground (GA096-159001-), which lies in the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA096-159002-). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 386, no. 106) as a fragment (L 0.35m; Wth 0.3m) of a plain cross. Just the head and the left arm survive. It is roughly cut from a block of weathered limestone.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 May 2018
References
Higgins, J.G. 1987 The Early Christian cross slabs, pillar stones and related monuments of County Galway, Ireland, 2 vols. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 375. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.