Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10125, -9.65267
- SMR number
- GA119-020004-
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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
This inscribed cross-slab (H 0.52m; Wth 0.35m) is built into the S side of the modern altar at the E end of Teaghlach Éinne (GA119-020001-). It bears a simple Latin cross with expanded triangular terminals. An inscription, running clockwise from top left across the four cantons of the cross, reads as follows: BEN(DACHT) DIE F(OR) AN(IM) S(AN)C(T)AN (Mac Néill 1938, 143-4). (Manning 1985, 116-17, Fig. 33(b) Slab E; Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 288, no. 19)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 February 2016
References
Manning, C. 1985c Archaeological excavations at two church sites on Inishmore, Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 115, 96-120.
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.
Mac Néill, E. 1938 Miscellanea: an inscription at Killeany, Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 143-4.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 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.