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
- KD018-001007-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
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 very fine, tapering, earthfast shaft of reddish/brown conglomerate stone with a rounded head carrying a Greek cross on its E face (total dims. H 0.86m; T 0.08-0.10m; Wth of shaft at base 0.3m; Wth of shaft at top 0.36m; diam. of head 0.39m).
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.