Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26473, -7.82414
- SMR number
- OF014-029118-
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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 five fragments. West Wall, West Facing, South off centre.
Diagram C12
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000098
Dimensions: Height 0.47m Width 0.49m
Cross slab. Originally roughly circular in outline. It bears an equal armed cross with circular central hollow. The arms consist of raised double bands which terminate in large trumpet shaped expansions formed of interlace. The cross contained within a circle formed of a single band in false relief.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 9 , PL111 (R6).
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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