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Cross-inscribed stone

Ballinlena, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-inscribed stone, Ballinlena, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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