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
- GA119-020006-
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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 is built into the N end of the front or W face of the modern altar at the E end of Teaghlach Éinne (GA119-020001-). Only the central section of the slab survives and it bears an incised cross. The arms survive intact; the terminal on left arm is triangular while that on the right arm bifurcates and is roughly crescentic in shape. The upper and lower terminals are missing due to the broken nature of the slab (Manning 1985, 117, Fig. 25(a) Slab D). (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 289, no. 20)
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.
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.