Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ballingarry (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.