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
- SMR number
- GA111-003011-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Possibly located within the children’s burial ground (GA111-003001-) known locally as Aharla graveyard. This cross-slab was recorded by O'Donovan in 1839 as a 'Stone on a small mound, a musket shot to the north-east of St. Kieran’s chapel [GA111-002001-]' (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3, 367 and facing p. 198). The accompanying sketch drawing indicates it was a roughly rectangular cross-slab bearing a two-line Latin cross with forked terminals. Crawford (1913, 155 (f)) incorrectly identified the slab as the broken upper fragment of the cross-inscribed pillar (GA111-003002-). Higgins (1987 vol. 2, 297, no. 26) suggests that the cross-slab was probably located in the children’s burial ground as there are similar cross-slabs (see GA111-003004- to GA111-003006- and GA110-003009-) here. However, despite a search of it and the children’ burial ground (GA111-002005-) c. 275m to the NW, the cross-slab remains unlocated.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 May 2016
References
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.
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.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kildare collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.