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
- 54.13028, -10.18673
- SMR number
- MA023-014034-
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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
One of two cross-slabs associated with a large circular platform (MA023-014033-), it stands upright on the E edge of the platform. The other cross-slab (MA023-014035-), which originally stood on the S half of the platform, is now in the National Museum of Ireland.
This cross-slab is a National Monument in state ownership (no. 379). It consists of a subrectangular granite slab with a gently rounded top, bearing a carving on its W face. The incised design, which fills almost the full available space, is composed of a cross of arcs enclosed within a circle outlined by twin grooves. Extending from beneath the circle is a cross-like extension outlined by a double line, which expands at the base of the shaft into a pelta motif or crescent with half-turn spirals; the horizontal arms are slightly more elaborate with twin strands bifurcating into a pelta-like terminal. (Henry 1945, Pl. XXV111, Slab 3). The carving is now weathered and difficult to see. Henry excavated the area immediately surrounding the slab in 1938 and found a concentration of animal bones at the base of the slab (ibid. 141-143).
Attached images:
MA023-014034-_01.JPG Decorated W face of the cross-slab
MA023-014034-_02.JPG Image published by F. Henry (1945, Pl. XXV111, Slab 3)
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 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
- Platformunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.