Gallen Cross-Inscribed Pillar (OF014-029006-)

3D Model

National Monument No. 504. Early Christian monastery founded by St. Canoc in 492 AD. Described as Standing Stone, T 27 by T.D. Kendrick who carried out excavations in 1934-5 at Gallen Priory, Co. Offaly. Kendrick stated that this stone stood at the foot of the mound, close to a Holy Tree. Ornate pillar stone standing 2.5m high by 0.8m wide by 0.15m thick, with rounded tenon rising from the top of the stone with rounded perforation just below the tenon. Decorated on one face only. Described by Kendrick as divided into two framed and recessed panels containing in low relief, an equal-armed cross of interlace, with trumpet-pattern interspaces, and two confronted quadrupeds with interlacing tails immediately surmounting a panel of diagonal fret in which is a sunk central square containing a single quadruped (? a stag). Now on display in the centre of the excavated medieval church site (OF014-029008-). For more information, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=OF014-029006-