Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Gallen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26476, -7.82410
- SMR number
- OF014-029149-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
West Wall, East Facing, Centre.
Inventory of Carved Stone, ID000031
Dimensions: Height 0.58m Width 0.34 Depth 0.08m
Set on ledge high on wall, copper brackets attach upper part and base set in metal shoe, upper edge damaged, top of cross / circle missing. Graveslab. Upper edge broken, tapers inward to base, upper part of stone bears equal armed cross with hollow angles and central circular depression enclosed in triple line circle.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.