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
- OF014-029037-
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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 7
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000005
Dimensions: Height 0.685m Width 0.535m
Cross slab tapers inwards to rounded base. Upper edge broken off, sinister edge probably also broken. It bears a linear outline cross enclosed in a double outline circle, the shaft projecting 0.15m below the circle. There is a series of indentations along the sinister edge. The cross design is identical to the cross-slab (OF014-029027-) illustrated by Macalister (1949, 75) which bears an inscription A[M]ACCATHAIL. These two cross-slabs may be the same slab.
Description taken from Inventory of Carved Stone, SMR.
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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