Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26482, -7.82380
- SMR number
- OF014-029032-
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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
East Wall, West Facing, North off centre.
Diagram Number 1
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000001
Dimensions: Height 1.43m Width .505m
Standing stone, irregular outline, upper sinister broken off. It bears a ringed cross in relief and each of the lower quadrants has a 'mirror-shaped' pendant. The sinister one contains a hollow depression. The upper part almost all worn away. Dexter arm and lower part of ring survive.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 13, pl. iv (no. T10).
References
Kendrick, T.D. 1939 Gallen priory: excavations 1934-5. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 69, 1-20.
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