Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Tawnagh West (killinny Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnagh West (killinny Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04818, -8.88725
- SMR number
- GA128-034018-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 cross-slab (H 0.41m; Wth 0.5m), the edges of which are damaged, is incorporated into the internal face of the N wall of ‘Templemurry’ (GA128-034014-), which is part of the monastic complex at Kilmacduagh. The slab is decorated with a multi-line Latin cross that is centred on a square panel, which is decorated with a double contoured duplex knot. The terminals end in rectangular panels; those on the arms are decorated with a simple three-strand interlace pattern while those at the head and base contain angular linear interlace patterns. The cross is enclosed within a rectangular two-line frame (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 337, no. 63).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 October 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2009).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.