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
- OF014-029020-
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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
Fagmentary remains of a sandstone cross-slab (dims. 0.34m x 0.32m x 0.05m) which was unearthed during excavations of Gallen priory in 1935. Described by Macalister as a cross-slab which was located in an outhtouse beside the gate lodge and had been`broken into fragments, of which seven survive' and was decorated with`a plain equilateral cross' (Macalister 1949, 74). The remains of the slab had an inscription which reads LEC COEMGUSA that can be translated to read 'Stone of Coemgusa ' (Macalister 1949, 74)
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949, 74, Plate XXXV drawing minor reference
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.