Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Ballinlena, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlena
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27730, -9.21016
- SMR number
- MA008-006006-
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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
In Kilcummin graveyard (MA008-006007-). The 1838 OS Letters record that there was a triangular-shaped stone slab, with a small Maltese-type cross in circle inscribed on one face, located on the W side of St Cummin’s grave (MA008-006002-) in the N half of the graveyard (O’Flanagan 1927, 101). The small size of the stone suggested that it might have broken off a larger slab, and it was noted that the cross was similar in design to those on another cross-slab (MA008-006003-) which stands on the W side of the saint’s grave. The dimensions of the three sides of the triangular slab were recorded as 11 inches [0.28m], 8 inches [0.2m] and 6 inches [0.15m], and it was 2.5 inches [0.06m] thick. The current location of the stone is unknown.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.