Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Ballymakellett, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymakellett
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03966, -6.30905
- SMR number
- LH005-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
Located in the fold of the NE-SW Altboy stream on a steep SW-facing slope and on the S side of an E-W forest track. A boulder (dims 1m x 0.7m; H 0.3m) has two wide grooves (Wth 0.1m; D 0.03m) on its upper side meeting at a right angle creating a cross. It is not known if it is natural, and it was first reported by Aoibheann Lambe.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 October, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.