Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ballintine, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintine
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25468, -6.85831
- SMR number
- KD018-001005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of five Early Christian cross-slabs (KD018-001003- to KD018-001007- ) located in a graveyard (KD018-001002-) which also contains a church site (KD018-001001-). A low, earthfast fragment of reddish/brown conglomerate stone (H 0.38m) comprises a rounded head (diam. 0.32m; T 0.10m) bearing a Greek cross on its E face with a short portion of the shaft (Wth 0.17m) protruding above ground surface.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.