Gallen Cross-Slab (OF014-029132-)

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Early Christian monastery (OF014-029----) founded at Gallen, Co. Offaly by St. Canoc in 492 AD. This monastic site was excavated in 1934-5 by T. D. Kendrick. About 200 fragments of cross-slabs dating from the 8th/11th-centuries were uncovered by this excavation. Sandstone cross-slab fragment measuring 0.12m high x 0.1m wide that has been inserted into the western face of a wall built on the line of the west gable of the excavated church. Slab fragment bears a lightly incised double arc of a circle with two short incised lines meeting in a point at the top. For more information, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=OF014-029132-