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
- OF014-029040-
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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 10
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000008
Dimensions: Height .68m Width .48m
Cross Slab. The slab is roughly squared, the edges somewhat damaged, especially the sinister edge. It bears an outline Latin cross with expanding arms, hollow angesl and central ring. A pediment shap inside the expanded base forms a stand for the cross. A crosslet similar to the large cross stands on each side of it in the lower quadrants.
Description taken from Inventory of Carved Stone, SMR.
Armstrong, JRSAI 38 (1908) p. 66, fig. 6.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 13, PL. V.
References
Armstrong, E.C.R. 1908 An account of some Early Christian monuments discovered at Gallen Priory. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38, 61-6.
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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