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
- GA111-003006-
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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. 5m to the S of a broken cross-inscribed pillar (GA111-003002-). This cross-slab (H 0.39m; Wth 0.13m; T 0.1m) bears a single-line Latin cross with an expanded terminal at the top of the shaft. The arms extend to the edge of the slab. The base of the shaft is obscured by soil cover. (Crawford 1913, 155 (g); Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 291, no. 21)
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.
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-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.