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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
53.26479, -7.82378
SMR number
OF014-029044-

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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, Centre.
Diagram Number 14
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000014
Dimensions: Height .60m Width .44m
Cross slab. Roughly rectangular in outline. A plain outline Latin ringed cross, deeply grooved, occupies almost the full face of the stone. Angles hollow.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Armstrong, JRSAI 38 (1908) p. 66, fig 9.

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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