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
- 53.13203, -9.68043
- SMR number
- GA111-003005-
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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
Located within a children’s burial ground (GA111-003001-), c. 17m to the SSW of a broken cross-inscribed pillar (GA111-003002-). This limestone cross-slab (H 0.19m; Wth 0.15m; T 0.06m) bears a small single-line Latin cross with forked terminals on its E face. The base of the shaft is obscured by soil cover. (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 298, no. 27)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 April 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-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 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.