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Cross-slab

Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inis Gé Thuaidh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.13232, -10.18823
SMR number
MA023-014017-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At a house (MA023-014007-) on top of Bailey Mór mound (MA023-014003-).
This cross-slab was found by Françoise Henry (1951, 65; Slab 2) set in the ground against the SE wall of the house.
It is a roughly rectangular stone slab, incised on one face with a cross of arcs within what appears to have been intended as a double circle. The inner circle is intact but the outer ring is reduced now to an incised arc above the inner circle and a matching arc underlying the inner circle. Beneath this, is an elaborate design of four paired spirals, and beneath the latter, a horizontal incised line cuts across the slab, from the centre of which a short vertical line descends to the base of the stone. The other face of the slab bears a simple Latin cross.
This cross-slab is now housed in the National Museum of Ireland.

Attached image:
MA023-014017-_01.JPG

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.

Henry, F. 1937 Early Christian Slabs and Pillar Stones in the West of Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 67, 275-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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