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Cross-inscribed pillar

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed pillar, Eoghanacht, 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
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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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 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

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

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