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Cross-slab

Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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