Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Corcormick, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corcormick
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19378, -8.11788
- SMR number
- LE016-016004-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Near Corcormick church (LE016-016001-) is a stone from a doorway (dims. 0.52m x 0.34m; H 0.2m) with a chamfer at one corner. The engraving of a wingless griffin is in false relief on the underside. The griffin is a mythical beast known from ancient Greece, and is usually described as an animal with a lion’s body and the head and wings of an eagle (Ruickbie 2016, 79-80). The Cormormick beast has an animal’s body and a bird’s head, but lack’s wings and is eating its own tail.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of amended upload: 24 June, 2019
References
Ruickbie, L. 2016 The Impossible Zoo. Robinson, London
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.