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
- OF014-029120-
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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, South off centre.
Diagram C14
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000100
Dimensions: Height 0.53m Width 0.50m
Cross slab. Cross with hollow angles and broad expanded arms. Quadrants double outlined. Square hollow 0.03m at centre. Enclosed by triple outline circle. Incised inscription visible on top of arm of cross at junction between arm of cross and outline circle enclosing cross.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 17 (H6) Fig.9.
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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