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
- OF014-029103-
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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 Face, Centre.
Diagram B28
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000083
Dimensions: Height 0.785m Width 0.66m
Cross slab. Tang shaped slab, with blunt assymetrical base. Two equal-armed single line cross, one on dexter side 0.18m long, sinister 0.17m long, with expanding ends on either side of a vertical dividing line.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 15 (A99) Fig. 8.
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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