Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26476, -7.82414
- SMR number
- OF014-029078-
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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
Two fragments remain, rignt section missing. West Wall, West Face, Centre.
Diagram B3
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000055 and ID 000056
ID 000055 Dimensions: Height .395m Width .29m
Cross slab, incomplete. It bears two arms of a cross each composed of a double band of interlace and enclosed in a double outline linear circle.
ID 000056 Dimensions: Height .145m Width .21m
Decorated fragment, triangular in outline, the long edge rounded. It bears an incomplete band of interlace which terminates against an arc composed of a double line of incision concentric with outer edge of stone.
Descriptions from Inventory of Carved Stone, SMR.
Armstrong, JRSAI 38 (1908) p.66 Fig 10.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) P.9 Pl. 3 (R4).
References
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.
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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