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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
53.26476, -7.82414
SMR number
OF014-029078-

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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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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