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Ballinlig (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlig (tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23912, -8.63836
- SMR number
- SL019-193----
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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
Utilised as an ornament in the garden of 'Ballinlig House' some 200m NW of the site known as 'The Abbey Field' (SL019-043001-), it consists of a stone basin (diam. 0.5m; H 0.3m) with a central circular depression (diam. 0.3m D 0.17m). The upper surface is decorated with a scalloped rim and a series of shallow indentations. That this could be interpreted as a font is possible although the abscence of a drain hole would suggest that it might have served as a free-standing benniter. Also preserved in the garden is a small stone fragment recorded as having been found close to the 'Abbey Field'. It is of cut stone (dims. 0.09m x 0.06m x 0.04m) with two circular depressions on the opposing surfaces (diam. 0.04m x D 0.01): its function is unknown.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 9 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.