Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
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
- GA111-002016-
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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
Recorded by Higgins (1987, vol. 2, 328, no. 54), this fragment of a possible cross-inscribed pillar is located in the children’s burial ground (GA111-002005-) to the N of ‘Monasterkieran’ (GA111-002001-). It is partly embedded in the ground and has been reused as a grave-marker. The fragment (L 0.78m; Wth 0.38m; T 0.11m) has a large boss on either side and bears a pair of parallel lines on its flat face that are part of a two-line Latin cross similar to those on other cross-inscribed pillars and cross-slabs in the vicinity (see GA111-002003-, GA111-002004-, GA111-002006-, GA111-002007 and GA111-002012-) (ibid.).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 May 2016
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-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.