Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26476, -7.82414
- SMR number
- OF014-029088-
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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 B13
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000072
Dimensions: Height 0.415m Width 0.235m
Slab. Roughly rectangular in outline. Upper corners rounded, lower end broken off. Upper part of slab bears an equal armed ringed cross in false relief. Below it is the upper part of a four-petal marigold in an incised circle, the petals sunk into the stone. The lower part of this design is missing.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 18 (A113)
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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