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Cross - High cross

Cill Éinne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross - High cross, Cill Éinne, 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
Cill Éinne
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cross
Coordinates
53.10334, -9.66301
SMR number
GA119-006004-

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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

Associated with St Enda's monastery on Inis Mór (GA119-006006-). Two portions of a limestone cross are cemented together on a modern plinth. The shaft (Wth 0.45m, T 0.23m, H 1.15m) bears decoration on four faces including fret patterns and Ringerike-style ornament. Henry (1970, 136-8) has suggested that these cross fragments, along with those at Teaghlach Éinne (GA119-020011-), originally formed part of the same high cross. (Crawford 1907, 213; Anon. 1897, 267)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

References

Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 326-34.

Anon. 1897f Proceedings: cruise in connexion with the Munster meeting; from Galway Bay to Waterford Harbour. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 27, 265-358.

Henry, F. 1970 Irish art in the Romanesque period (1020-1170 A.D.). London. Methuen.

Nearby in the register

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

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