Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Longstones, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longstones
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.03719, -7.83043
- SMR number
- LE025-067----
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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
Located in pasture on the summit of a N-S ridge of rock outcrop. Three conglomerate slabs form a row (L c. 14m) which is roughly aligned N-S. The N (L 4m; max. Wth 2m; T 0.4m) and central (L 4.4m; max. Wth 1.4m; T 0.3m) stones are now recumbent, but the S stone (dims 0.9m x 0.25m; H 0.85m) is still standing and aligned N-S. The stones have rough points, and the central one has a rough tenon at its base. If they were all upright, and they are thought locally to have been standing until c. 1910 (SMR file), the space between the N and central stones would be c. 2.6m, and between the central and S stone would be c. 8m.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.