
What is recorded here
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.
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
Places near here
water pumpwater pump · 53 yd
CarrickfinnOfficial bathing water · 1594 yd
Braade StrandBeach / strand · 1.0 mi
Catholic Church of Saint Mary Star of the Seachurch/chapel · 1.3 mi
Annagry Stone RingfortFairy fort / stone ringfort · 1.3 mi
Annagary HillMountain / peak · 1.5 mi
Rinnalea Point / Na Reanna LiathaHeadland · 2.0 mi
Trá Dún MórBeach / strand · 2.9 mi
An tOileán CarrachIslet · 3.1 mi
Main WallCliff · 4.4 miOther information
Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0