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
- 53.14588, -9.77796
- SMR number
- GA110-023017-
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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 is one of eight cross-slabs (see also GA110-023013- to GA110-023016- and GA110-023018- to GA110-023020-) associated with Leaba Bhreacáin (GA110-023001-). This example forms part of the N revetting face of the leaba. It consists of a subrectangular block of limestone (H 0.72m; Wth 0.37m; T 0.06m) bearing a grooved two-line Latin cross (Waddell 1973, 19, no. 7). (Crawford 1913, 154 (l); Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 319, no. 45)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 March 2016
References
Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.