Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26479, -7.82416
- SMR number
- OF014-029070-
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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
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.
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