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Cross-slab

Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Gallen, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gallen
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.26482, -7.82380
SMR number
OF014-029037-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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