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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, -7.82416
SMR number
OF014-029070-

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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

West Wall, West Facing, North off centre.
Diagram A13
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000050
Dimensions: Height 0.605m Width 0.385m
Cross slab. Tang shaped outline, rounded on top, blunt at base. It bears a double outline linear equal armed cross with deeply curved angles and circular central hollow in a ring, the whole enclosed in a triple outline circumference ring. Shape quadrants defined by double line. Very similar to the cross-slab (OF014-029018-) illustrated by Macalister (1949, 74, no. 855), could be the same slab.

Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 17 (T22) Fig. 9.

References

Kendrick, T.D. 1939 Gallen priory: excavations 1934-5. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 69, 1-20.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

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

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