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
- OF014-029101-
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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, Centre.
Diagram B26
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000080
Dimensions: Height 0.335m Width 0.24m
Cross slab, incomplete. Tapers inwards towards rounded base. The design, in low false relief, consists of a contoured cross, with central circle. The lateral arms expand, the shaft terminates at both ends in a D-shaped expansion containing a pit. The lower expansion projects beyond the edge of the enclosing circle, which here follows the line of the cross. Two scrolls project upwards and outwards beyond the circle above the top of the cross. A pelta projects inwards from the circle towards the short lateral arms of the cross and the quadrants contain acutely waisted thistle devices. (Or mirror?)
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 8 Fig 2 (A44).
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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