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
- OF014-029051-
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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, Facing, South off Centre.
Diagram Number 21
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000021
Dimensions: Height .72 m Width .385 m
Cross slab. Rises to an assymetrical point at the top, tapers inwards towards the base. It bears a ringed cross with hollow angles in high relief. At the centre there are scrolls in a circle. The three upper terminals each contain a small human head, inside those in the lateral arms is a snake's head, that in the upper arm is held in a bird's beak. A similar feature encloses the head of a small human figure standing erect, hands raised, in the upper part of the cross shaft. The long swrirling bodies of the birds and beasts form a spiral around four scrolls at the centre of the cross. The lower part of the cross shaft contains a double outline panel with fretwork. The ring contains interlace and fretwork.
Description taken from Inventory of Carved Stone, SMR.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 9, plate iv, (A109) (Fig. 11)
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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