Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
Eochaill (bar. árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (bar. árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13403, -9.69657
- SMR number
- GA110-082002-
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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 cross-inscribed limestone pillar (H 1.27m; base Wth 0.14m, tapering to 0.09m at top), supported by a number of loose boulders at its base, is to the ESE of St Soorney’s Well (GA110-082001-). It bears a single-line grooved Latin cross on its NW face. The arms of the cross run to the edge of the pillar and there is a subcircular area at the head of it; the shaft tapers gradually to a point (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 280, no. 11).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 March 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
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.