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Ballymanus Mine Disaster Monument

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Ballymanus Mine Disaster Monument
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Freestanding carved limestone Celtic cross memorial, erected c.1970, commemorating Ballymanus Sea Mine Disaster. Open-ringed cross atop shaft, both with interlace ornament. Inscribed plinth and base with names of victims. Located on road side and enclosed by sandstone walls with field-stone coping.
This Celtic cross is of artistic and social significance to the locality, having been erected to serve as a reminder to those killed during the Ballymanus Mine Disaster in which nineteen local men were killed when a mine washed ashore and exploded on the beach in 1943 during the Second World War.

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