Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
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
- 53.13130, -9.75312
- SMR number
- GA110-048002-
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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 limestone cross-slab (H 0.78m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.1m) is in the graveyard known as Cnocan na mBan (GA110-048001-). Its E face bears a simple Latin cross with rounded terminals at the head and foot of the shaft. The arms run to the edge of the slab. The cross-slab is in a secondary position having been wedged into a loose socket in the graveyard (Higgins 1987, vol. 11, 283, no. 14).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 April 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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.