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Addergoole (Carrowntowmush)

Location
(53°37′23″N, 8°49′55″W)
Addergoole (Carrowntowmush)
M 45 64
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Galway
now Galway
  • Tessa Garton

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Feature Sets
Description

Cross head leaning against the W wall of the old graveyard.

History

The cross is said to have been brought to its current position from a site on the top of a quarried hillock about 100 m W of the churchyard (Harbison, 1992).

Features

Exterior Features

Other

Comments/Opinions

The date of the cross is uncertain and it appears to be unfinished, although the shape of the head and manner in which the Christ figure has been roughed out is similar in form to the 12thc. market cross at nearby Tuam.

Bibliography
Crawford, H., 'Supplementary List of Early Irish Crosses’, JRSAI, 48, 1918, 176.
Crawford, H., ‘Some Crosses not mentioned in the List of Irish Crosses’, JRSAI, 38, 1908, 182.
P. Harbison, , The High Crosses of Ireland , Bonn, 1992, 9-10.
Sexton, E.H.L., A Descriptive and Bibliographical List of Irish Figure Sculptures of the Early Christian Period ,Portland, 1946, 47.
Visser , G. et al, Die Ierse kruisigingsikonografie van 7de tot de 13de eeuw, Utrecht, 1981, II, 2.