Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13085, -9.75895
- SMR number
- GA110-044005-
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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
Standing c. 8m to the W of the church (GA110-044001-), which is known locally as Teampall Mac Duach. This tall tapering limestone slab (H 2.21m; Wth 0.65m top; Wth 0.61m base; T 0.13m) inclines slightly to the S. Both faces are decorated. The W face is rough and bears a simple Latin cross. The E face is dressed and bears an two-line double-ringed Latin cross. The shaft of the cross terminates in a circle which contains an incised Greek crosslet (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 374, no. 94). (Crawford 1913, 154).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 January 2016
References
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.