Gallen Cross-Slab (OF014-029149-)

3D Model

National Monument No. 504. Early Christian cross-slab that was unearthed by T.D. Kendrick during his excavations in 1934-5 at Gallen Priory, Co. Offaly. The stone with an incised ‘Thistle Cross’ was described by Kendrick as a slab (A 107) with a ‘double outline cross within a triple circle; central pitting; deep rough engraving’. The cross-slab now on display at Gallen, where it is attached to the east face of a wall standing on the footprint of the western gable of the excavated church site. Gallen was the site of an Early Christian monastery (OF014-029008-) founded by St. Canoc in 492 AD. A large collection of early Christian cross-slabs (OF014-029003-) dating from the 8th/11th-centuries were uncovered along with the site of an early medieval church (OF014-029008-). A large selection of cross-slabs were inserted into a display wall on the site of the excavated medieval church. For more information on this cross-slab, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=OF014-029149-