Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
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
- 53.14587, -9.77727
- SMR number
- GA110-023021-
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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 four cross-slabs (see also GA110-023022-, GA110-023023- and GA110-023024-) now associated with St Brecan’s Grave (GA110-023009-); it is the southernmost example. It consists of a tall limestone pillar (H 1.25m; Wth 0.18m; T 0.13m) that bears a grooved Latin cross with splayed terminals (Waddell 1973, 19, no. 11). The cross rises from a base with two L-shaped legs (Higgins 1978, vol. 2, 308, no. 35). Crawford (1913, 154 (j)) described the latter feature as being shaped like ‘a pair of bent legs’. A similar base is evident on the cross-slab (GA110-023014-).
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-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.