Cross-inscribed pillar

The National Monuments Service's description

To the NE of Teampall Chiaráin (GA111-002001-). This tall limestone pillar (H 1.86m; max. Wth 0.46m; max. T 0.18m), with bosses on its top and on both sides, bears a two-line double-armed Latin cross on its E face. The arms of the upper cross appear to have had plain closed ends but those on the lower one are open ended. A simple quatrefoil is visible at the junction of the arms and shaft of both crosses. (Wakeman 1891, 354; Crawford 1907, 212(7); 1913, 155(c); O’Flanagan 1927, vol. 3, 369 and facing p. 200 (4); Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 331, no. 57)

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.

Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 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. 1891 On the earlier forms of inscribed Christian crosses found in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 350-58.