Cross-inscribed pillar

The National Monuments Service's description

This tall cross-inscribed pillar (H 2.47m; Wth 0.32m at top; T 0.11m) is incorporated into a field boundary c. 14m to the W of Teampall Chiaráin (GA111-002001-). The top of the pillar is rounded off and its E face bears two crosses, one placed above the other. The upper cross is a single-line Latin cross with semicircular terminals and a central roundel. The lower cross is a two-line Latin cross with terminals similar to those on the upper cross at its top and base. There is also a central roundel. Between the two crosses another feature is defined by two parallel lines with a pair of projecting leaf-shaped terminals at both ends. (Wakeman 1891, 357; Crawford 1913, 155(b); O’Flanagan 1927, vol. 3, 369 and facing p. 200 (2); Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 378, no. 98).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 12 February 2016

This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

References

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.

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.

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.

Wakeman, W. F. 1890-1 On the early forms of inscribed Christian crosses found in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 21, 350-8.