Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Ballyclery, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyclery
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.14487, -8.92064
- SMR number
- GA113-010002-
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
Circa 5m to the SE of a holy well (GA113-010001-). This simple Latin limestone cross (H 1m; arm span Wth 0.6m) is cemented into a stepped plinth of limestone blocks on the SE limits of a small cairn (c. 6.5m E-W; c. 0.5m N-S; H c. 1m). The slab is dressed on the SE face and sides but the NW face is unworked. It bears the INRI inscription on the SE face and is dated AD 1820.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.