Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
MacHaire Loiscthe, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacHaire Loiscthe
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.19125, -7.81915
- SMR number
- DG016-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
A former standing stone now fallen and broken in two pieces. Originally it stood 1.69m high and is .7m wide × 0.15m thick. Situated just N of the sandhills that separate Sheephaven and Mulroy Bay, on land rising gently to N. This monument is now in course of re-erection.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 19 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.