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
- Coordinates
- 54.03528, -7.83011
- SMR number
- LE025-069----
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
Located on a N-S ridge of rock outcrop. A conglomerate slab (L 3.6m; Wth 0.6-1.15m; T 0.15m plus) which was upright within living memory and has a feature like a tenon at its base now lies prone and broken in two at the entrance to a farmyard.
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
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.