Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
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
- 53.14597, -9.77797
- SMR number
- GA110-023027-
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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.