Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eoghanacht
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14620, -9.77730
- SMR number
- GA110-010015-
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
This fragment of a cross-slab (dims. 0.58m x 0.57m; T 0.12m) lies at the E end of the building (GA110-010009-) to the N of Teampall Bhreacáin (GA110-010001-). It bears a ringed Latin cross with fleur-de-lis terminals (Waddell 1973, 21, no. 15).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 March 2016
References
Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.