Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Leaght, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leaght
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 54.81089, -7.65909
- SMR number
- DG078-009001-
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch maps marks two standing stones here but only one is now extant. It is 1.75m high × 1m wide at base × 0.4m thick; E-W. Situated on good pasture land on the S slopes of a hill.
Site revisited in 2003 and described as the stone is aligned NNE-SSW. There are at least six large buttressing stones, now lying flat at its base.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Complied by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.