Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Glebe (part of), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (part of)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24078, -8.05864
- SMR number
- GA101-017007-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the graveyard (GA101-017002-) that surrounds Clonfert Cathedral (GA101-017001-), this cross-slab is now incorporated into a modern grave surround. Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 375, no. 95) as a weathered rectangular slab (H 0.61m; Wth 0.63m; T 0.12m) bearing a two-line ringed cross with straight-ended terminals. The cross occupies most of the slab but traces of an inscription reading OR DO were recorded above it, on the left hand side, by various authors (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 105; Crawford 1913, 153(b)). It is now very difficult to make out.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 May 2018
References
Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.