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Cross

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, 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
53.14597, -9.77797
SMR number
GA110-023027-

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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 small crudely carved cruciform cross (L 0.44m; Wth 0.4m) is lying loose on Leaba an Spioraid Naoimh (GA110-023002-), which is to the W of Teampaill Bhreacáin (GA110-010001-). There is a break across shaft just below the arms. Waddell (1973, 27) suggested that it was probably relatively modern but Higgins (1987, vol. 1, 71, vol. 2, 384, no. 104) argues that it may be early based on its site context and the fact that it does not bear the sort of tooling typical of workmanship of the 18th or 19th centuries.

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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