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
- OF014-029135-
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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 C29
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000112
Dimensions: Height 0.46m Width 0.50m
Cross slab. Irregular in outline, roughly rounded. It bears an incised design consisting of a linear cross with a round hollow in the centre contained in a circumference circle. Each quadrant contains a crosslet in a circumference circle. Probably an altar slab.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 14 Fig. 7.
Lionard, PRIA 61 (1960-1) p. 136, Fig. 27 (5).
References
Kendrick, T.D. 1939 Gallen priory: excavations 1934-5. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 69, 1-20.
Lionard, P. 1961 Early Irish grave-slabs. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 61C, 95-161.
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