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
- OF014-029041-
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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
Fragment. East Wall, West Facing. North off centre.
Diagram Number 11
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000011
Dimensions: Height .19m Width .135m
Slab fragment. It bears part of the ring and one arm of a cross in false relief. There is trace of a circular projection from the angle of the cross into the quadrant.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone,SMR.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 12 fig. 6.
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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