Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Shantemon, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shantemon
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fin Mc Cools Fingers
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fin Mc Cools Fingers
- Coordinates
- 54.01733, -7.29140
- SMR number
- CV021-073----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Five stones orientated NW-SE. Situated in a clearing within a modern plantation of coniferous trees, on the E shoulder of a high ridge in mountainous terrain. The stones are graded in height. The lowest (H c. 0.5m) is at the NW end with the tallest (H c. 2m) at the SE end. This is a National Monument in state care.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.