Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26479, -7.82378
- SMR number
- OF014-029044-
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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, 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.