Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26476, -7.82390
- SMR number
- OF014-029017-
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Sandstone cross-slab (dims. 0.58 x 0.42 ) that was first mentioned in 1908 by E. c. R. Armstrong and in 1949 was located in an out-house near the gate lodge (Macalister 1949, 72). This slab was described as `Part of the lower margin of a slab which has borne a probably simple cross in a square panel, surrounded with a wavy band in relief: the surface of the stone, all but a bordering, has been cut back to secure the relief' (Macalister 1949, 72). This slabs bears an inscription which reads BERRAN.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 73-74, Plate IV drawing concise discussion
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.