Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
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
- 53.05724, -9.51841
- SMR number
- GA120-028003-
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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
When recorded by Mason (1938, 198) this cross-slab was complete and was standing upright in the graveyard (GA120-028002-). It was in this condition in the early 1970s (information Dr J. Waddell) but when surveyed by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 360, no. 82) it was lying on the ground and was broken in three pieces (L 1.65m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.04-0.05m). It is decorated with a ringed two-line Latin cross. The head and arms are contained within the circle but the shaft extends below it and ends in a single-line open-ended splaying base with a crosslet projecting from the top of each of its sides. The breaks in the slab occur just below the circle and below the base (Higgins ibid., Fig. 78, Pl. 26B).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 February 2016
References
Mason, T.H. 1938 The antiquarian remains of Inisheer, Aran, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 196-200.
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.