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
- OF014-029087-
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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
In two fragments. West Wall, West Facing, Centre.
Diagram B12
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000067
Dimensions: Height 0.42 m Width 0.32m
Slab. Irregular outline. Tapers in towards rounded base. Incised six-petal marigold, the outer ends of the petals joined by concave arcs, enclosed by a triple outline circumference ring.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 18 Fig 3.
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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