Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Carrowgilhooly, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgilhooly
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.25356, -8.67205
- SMR number
- SL013-106002-
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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
Situated in farmyard to front of sheds and originally discovered as a flag in the floor of nearby farmhouse. The slab is of a fine grained reddish sandstone, roughly rectangular in shape and section (L 0.95m; Wth 0.63m; T 0. 12m). The top and left side of the stone have been broken. A cross (max. diam. 0.36m) of Maltese type within a circular band is carved in low relief at the top of the slab.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.