Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Holed stone
Roscam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roscam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Penitential Station
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holed-Stone & Bullauns (Penitential Station)
- Coordinates
- 53.26390, -8.98441
- SMR number
- GA094-072007-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This holed stone has been placed lying on a 20th-century grave plot in the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. When recorded by Wakeman (1895, 286) it was standing upright in the graveyard, about 50m to the SE of the church (GA094-072001-). The part of the slab (L 0.66m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.13m) that would have been visible when it was upright is rectangular in shape but the lower section is roughly subtiangular. The hole (diam. 0.09m) which pierces the stone is set off-centre to the top right. A medieval graveslab (GA094-072006-) has also been placed on the grave plot, to the S of the stone.
The following images have been uploaded:
GA094-072007-_01 View of holed stone
GA094-072007-_02 Holed stone with graveslab (GA094-072006-) to its left
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.