Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Longstones, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longstones
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.03642, -7.83081
- SMR number
- LE025-068002-
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
Listed as standing stone possible in the SMR for Co. Leitrim (1988) as there was a reference to a possible standing stone ' 6 feet long' (Blaney 1944, No. 123) just S of the ringfort (LE025-068001-). No surface remains of any similar stone was found in this area or around the ringfort.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 February, 2017
References
Blaney, N. 1944 Ballinamore Library, file nos. 124-47. Unpublished notes.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 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.