Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Ballyphilip (clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyphilip (clanwilliam By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Crossalaghta, outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crosslaght, outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.53755, -8.40753
- SMR number
- LI024-093----
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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
At a road junction known locally today as ‘Guerin’s Cross’, in the townland of Ballyphilip, 100m S of Ballyphilip House. Annotated 'Crossalaghta' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a semicircular-shaped area (27m NE-SW; 17m NW-SE) on the NW side of the road. Today, this crossroads is formed by a T-junction and the entrance to Ballyphilip House stands 100m to N. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following details; 'Cros a' Leachta, the cross-roads of the sepulchral monument. It takes its name from some large stones there, called in Irish as "Leacht", signifying "a sepulchral monument" (OSNB Aglishcormick Parish, 82). Area of monument on NW side of crossroads is visible as a semicircular-shaped tree-planted area on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 July 2020
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.