Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Ballynahinch, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahinch
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41776, -8.43696
- SMR number
- LI040-115003-
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 two thin red sandstone slabs (dims. (0.52m H x 0.43m Wth x 0.03m T) inside Cloheen graveyard (LI040-115002-) which has a cross (dims. 0.11m H x 0.14m Wth) inscribed into the surface of the stone (pers.comm. 26/05/1986). Unable to locate cross-inscribed stone which was located in N quadrant of graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 June 2019
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/12 on 05/01/2003. 370/3 on 10/05/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.