Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cartron (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55700, -10.04124
- SMR number
- GA022-012002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the graveyard (GA022-012001-) associated with 'Ballinakill Church' (GA022-012001-). This cross-slab (H 0.62m; Wth 0.22m; T 0.1m), presently used as a grave-marker, bears a deeply incised Latin cross with a T-shaped terminal at its base. There is a small circular hole in the top of the slab.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.