Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06387, -9.51400
- SMR number
- GA120-007007-
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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 limestone graveslab is at the bottom of a stone-lined pit, which is possibly the site of ‘St Cavan’s Grave (GA120-007004-). It is about 1.5m below the present ground level and a modern roofed building now protects it. The slab (exposed L c. 1.52m; Wth 0.65m) bears a ringed Latin cross with splaying terminals. The long shaft splays towards the bottom but juts in sharply before continuing on. The angles between the arms of the cross are hollowed out and interspaces between the angles and the enclosing ring are filled with grooves and semicircular features (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 364, no. 86).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 March 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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.