Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyallaban
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08630, -9.15611
- SMR number
- CL005-095003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the grounds of ‘Ballyallaban House’, in the NW sector of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-095001-). A small, plain, stone Latin cross (H 0.71; Wth at base 0.29m; Wth at top 0.1m; T 0.11m; Wth of arms 0.31m; H 0.11m) erected on a low, drystone rectangular platform (L 1.88m NE-SW; Wth 1.62m NW-SE; H1.1-1.25m.). A bullaun stone (CL005-095002-) lies at the NW floor of the platform.
See attached image: CL005-095002-_01.JPG View of cross from NE. (Bullaun at base circled.)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 20 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.