Survey Data
Reg No
40904114
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1960 - 1980
Coordinates
177728, 420268
Date Recorded
07/04/2014
Date Updated
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Description
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.
Appraisal
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.