Cross-inscribed pillar

The National Monuments Service's description

To the SE of another cross-inscribed pillar (GA111-002006-). This tall limestone pillar (H 1.78m; Wth at top 0.4m; T 0.18m), with bosses on the top and near the upper end of both sides, bears a two-line Latin cross with a long shaft and open-ended splaying terminals on its W face. (Crawford 1907, 212(7); 1913, 155(d); O’Flanagan 1927, vol. 3, 369 and facing p. 200 (3); Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 330, no. 56)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.