Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
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
- 53.13363, -9.69494
- SMR number
- GA110-084004-
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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
One of three cross-slabs (see also GA110-084003- and GA110-084005-) in the field to the E of ‘Teampall Asurnaí’ (GA110-084001-). This recumbent limestone cross-slab (L 1.48m; Wth 0.54-0.55m; T 0.1m) is broken in two pieces. The smaller upper portion is inscribed with a two-line circle within which traces of an indistinguishable feature are evident. The larger lower portion bears an incised cross within a circle. The shaft extends below the circle and ends in a large triangle. Higgins (1987, vol. 2, 362, no. 84) suggests that the cross can be interpreted in two ways. It could be an encircled Greek cross with a long shaft added or it could be a Latin cross with an encircled head.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 February 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.