Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Gé Thuaidh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13230, -10.18823
- SMR number
- MA023-014016-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within a house (MA023-014007-) on top of Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-).
Françoise Henry (1945, 137) found this cross-slab during the excavation of the house. It was lying just outside the entrance passage of the house and Henri postulated that the slab had served as the lintel of the doorway. Engraved on the slab, and filling approximately half of its length, is a cross with Y-shaped terminals to its long arms.
Attached image:
MA023-014016-_01.JPG Image published by F. Henry (1945, Pl. XXIII, Fig. 2)
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 July 2023
References
Henry, F. 1945 Remains of the Early Christian Period on Inishkea North, Co. Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 75, 127-55.
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.