Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26287, -7.82333
- SMR number
- OF014-029028-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Section of a slab (dims 0.56m x 0.33m; T 0.06m) with lower portion of carving of a cross with T-shaped terminals standing on a base set within a rectangular simple ribbon border defined by two lines. Slab was recovered from the graveyard of Gallen Priory, Co. Offaly, during the 1980s and is now housed in the NMI Collections Resource Centre in Swords, Co. Dublin (DU018-308----/DU011-157----).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 14 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.