Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Drumacoo, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacoo
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19868, -8.90486
- SMR number
- GA103-118012-
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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 cross-slab was found in the graveyard (GA103-118003-) surrounding the church (GA103-118001-) at the monastic complex at Drumacoo. It comprises a subrectangular limestone slab (H 0.55m; Wth 0.37m; T 0.13m) that bears a grooved single-line Latin cross on one face. The head and arms end in T-shaped terminals and the base is subrectangular in plan (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 286, no. 17). (Waddell 1977-8, 63)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 December 2016
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.
Waddell, J. 1977 Some archaeological material in University College Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 36, 56-69.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.