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Cross-slab

Ballingarry (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Ballingarry, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballingarry (Dunkellin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.18157, -8.63519
SMR number
GA105-003002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This cross-slab is located 5m to the W of a holy well (GA105-00300) and is lying adjacent to an 18th-century cross (GA105-003----). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 355, no. 78) as a rectangular limestone slab (L 0.66m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.05-0.07m), now recumbent. Its upper half bears a Greek cross ‘formed from four recessed segments of a circle’. The recesses are deeply pocked. Other areas of this face of the slab had also been worked to flatten irregularities. There was some evidence of trimming on the sides and the back of the slab was rough.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Edited by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 16 November 2022

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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