Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Esker (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esker (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28104, -8.68443
- SMR number
- GA096-177001-
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
Incorporated into the Stations of the Cross along a woodland walk in the grounds of St Patrick's Redemptorist Monastery (GA084-071001-) at Esker, Athenry. This cross-slab is incorporated into the 14th Station. It has a deeply cut V-sectioned border all around it and it bears a ringed cross of three lines with plain straight ended terminals.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 February 2023
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.