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
- GA119-020005-
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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 cross-slab (H 0.9m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.16m) is built into the S end of the front or W face of the altar at the E end of Teaghlach Éinne (GA119-020001-). It bears an outline ringed Latin cross terminating in a roundel above the head. The shaft of the cross is incomplete due to a break in the slab. The slightly expanded open-ended arms extend beyond the ring. (Manning 1985, 117, Fig. 25(a) Slab C; Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 365, no. 87)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 February 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.
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.
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.