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
- GA111-002013-
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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
Within a children’s burial ground (GA111-002005-) to the NE of Teampall Chiaráin (GA111-002001-). This limestone cross-slab (visible H 0.49m; max. Wth 0.43m; shaft Wth 0.33m; T 0.1m), with bosses near the upper ends of both sides, bears a simple single-line Latin cross with forked terminals on the arms and head. A drawing by Higgins (1987, vol. 2, 305, no. 32) indicates that terminal at the base, which is obscured by soil cover, is heart or spike shaped. (Crawford 1913, 155(e))
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 February 2015
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.
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.
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.