Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Gortnaglogh, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaglogh
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01628, -7.64612
- SMR number
- LA010-004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not marked on the 1841 or 1962 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A sandstone conglomerate (max. base L 1.08m; Wth 1.13m; H 1.38m) roughly rectangular in plan, narrowing towards the top and tilting sligtly to W. Two small pieces of sandstone protrude from the soil around its base. The ground around it has been eroded, probably by cattle using the stone as a scratching post. Known locally as the 'Mass Rock' and believed to bave been used in Penal times as a mas site (Feehan 1979, 237).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.