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Cross-slab

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, 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
GA110-023022-

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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 GA110-023021-, GA110-023023- and GA110-023024-) now associated with St Brecan’s Grave (GA110-023009-); it is the second cross-slab from the S. It was found by Petrie in 1822 in Teampall Bhreacáin (GA110-010001-) (Waddell 1973, 21, no. 12). It consists of a rectangular slab (H 0.82m; Wth 0.38m; T 0.12m) bearing an incised cross potent with ornamented rolls in each quarter. The cross rises from a roughly rectangular base. An inscription running across the shaft reads: TOMAS AP[STAL], a dedication to Thomas the Apostle (ibid.). (Westropp 1895, 253; Crawford 1913, 154 (i); Higgins 1987, 372, no. 92)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 9 March 2016

References

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.

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.

Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.

Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.

Nearby in the register

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

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