Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Ballynakill, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69713, -7.92791
- SMR number
- LF013-045010-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of five early medieval cross-slabs (see also LF013-045004-, LF013-045011-, LF013-045012-, LF013-045013-) attached to the W face of a display feature that has been constructed on the line of the E gable of a church (LF013-045002-). This rough undressed cross-slab (H 0.83m; Wth 0.52m; T 0.12m) bears an incised ringed cross with decorated expanded terminals in false relief. There is an indication that the head of the cross may have been within a circular setting. The inscription reads MAEL – CHOLUIM (Macalister 1949, vol. 2, 196).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.