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The South Cross, near Ballinahown

The South Cross is a high cross in County Offaly, 9.6 km west of Ballinahown in County Westmeath.

The map records a high cross here and gives it the name The South Cross, and nothing else: no inscription, no date and no link to an entry anywhere that says what it commemorates. This site has not been able to identify it, and will not guess.

County
County OffalyThe county boundary encloses it, taken from the OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries. It is listed on this site under Ballinahown, which is the nearest settlement and is in County Westmeath.
From Ballinahown
9.6 km west, in a straight line

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The South Cross is in Ballinahown, County Westmeath. Routes here end at the point the map records for this place. No entrance has been verified, so the last few metres are for you to judge.

It is 9.6 km west of the centre of Ballinahown in a straight line. The map records no stop within walking distance.
Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Clonmacnoise (12442), 140 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Clonmacnoise 140 m
    bus 850
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Ballinahown covers the journeys into the town itself.

Other high crosses in Ballinahown

Nearest to The South Cross first, and the figure beside each one is how far it is from The South Cross, in a straight line. Same point, same measure.

All 7 high crosses in Ballinahown

Questions people ask

Where is The South Cross?
Near Ballinahown, County Offaly, 9.6 km west of the centre.
What are the opening hours of The South Cross?
Opening hours are not available on this page yet. Check with the business before travelling.
How far is The South Cross from the centre of Ballinahown?
9.6 km west of the centre, measured in a straight line. The map above can work out the walk along the footpaths from wherever you are.
Are there other high crosses near The South Cross?
7 in Ballinahown altogether. The nearest are The Cross of the Scriptures, The North Cross and Cross of the Scriptures.
How do you get to The South Cross without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Clonmacnoise, 140 m away in a straight line, and bus 850 call there, run by TFI Local Link Laois Offaly. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop over real footways and the whole journey from wherever you are starting, for the day and time you choose.

Where this comes from

From the map
The name, the kind of place, the address where the record carries one, and any website, phone or opening hours shown as recorded on the map are tags on OpenStreetMap node/10598827473, and can be corrected there.
Worked out here
Every distance, the nearest road where the record has no address, which car park and which stop are nearest, and the order of the lists are this site’s own calculations from those records. Distances are straight lines between two points, not walks along the footpaths, and the map will route the real walk on request. A mistake in any of this is a mistake here rather than on the map.

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