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
- 53.13249, -9.68445
- SMR number
- GA111-002012-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This fragment of a limestone cross-slab (H 1.13m; max. Wth 0.55m) is in the W half of a children’s burial ground (GA111-002005-), propped against a 19th-century grave. Both ends of the slab are broken. A short semicircular boss is evident on each side. The side facing E bears a simple two-line Latin cross with rounded hollows between the angles of each arm. The terminals on the arms are rounded off. (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 390, no. 110)
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
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.