Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26477, -7.82378
- SMR number
- OF014-029049-
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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, South off Centre.
Diagram Number 19
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000019
Dimensions: Height .73 m Width .85 m
Cross slab. Upper edge broken off. Stone narrows gradually inwards to a rounded base. Almost the whole of the face is occupied by an outline Latin cross with a triple-line ring behind the centre. Small in relation to the size of the cross.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Armstrong, JRSAI 38 (1908) p. 66, Fig 8.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 13 (T5)
References
Kendrick, T.D. 1939 Gallen priory: excavations 1934-5. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 69, 1-20.
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.
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