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
- 54.12961, -10.20041
- SMR number
- MA023-015003-
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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
Originally located near St. Columbkille's Church (MA023-015001-), on the SW side of Inishkea North, now in the National Museum of Ireland.
This cross-slab (H c. 0.9m) was found by Françoise Henry (1945, 132 & 145; Pl. XXVIII; Slab 5) ‘near St. Columba’s Church…standing in the fence of a field’, with the carved surface facing to SE. The exact location is uncertain but it appears to have been downslope to SE of the church. The design, positioned on the upper half of the slab, consists of a cross with terminals that expand to paired single-turn spirals, and an extension of the shaft below the lower arm, ending in an identical terminal.
Attached image:
MA023-015003-_01.JPG: Image published by Henry (1945, Pl. XXVIII, Slab 5)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.