Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Unknown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA110-177----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The only record of this possible cross-slab is a sketch by Wakeman (1891, 358, Pl. III, no. 28), who attributed it to 'Aran Mór'. Only the cross form itself is depicted and it consists of a one-line Greek cross with bifurcating arms enclosed within a one-line circle (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 351, no. 74). Not located.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 May 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.
Wakeman, W.F. 1891 On the earlier forms of inscribed Christian crosses found in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 350-58.