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
- OF014-029050-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 20
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000020
Demensions: Height .96m Width .66m
Slab. Sub-rectangular outline. It bears a double outline angular frame, which runs almost the full width and length of the slab. The upper part and much of the dexter side have worn away. There is a double outline circle from the upper edge. At this point and 0,02m from the frame on the sinister side there is a single line circle, 0,08m d. just level with it inside the dexter side of the frame, and a double outline circle immediately below it, 0.095m d. No other pattern discernible.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.