Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Fenagh Beg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fenagh Beg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.02088, -7.83783
- SMR number
- LE025-094----
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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
Situated in an undulating pasture with rock outcrop. It is marked only on the revised 1944 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and it had been moved c. 30m SE to its present position (OSFM). The stump of a limestone slab remains (dims c. 1.2m x 0.3m; H 0.6m). Archaeological testing (00E0487) c. 50m to the S failed to reveal any associated features (Read 2002a), and testing (03E0956) c. 50m to the NW had a similar result (Timoney 2006).
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
Read, C. 2002a Commons, Fenagh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 188, no. 565. Bray. Wordwell.
OSFM. Ordnance Survey Field Memorandums. A collection of survey notes and descriptions of monuments on pro-forma sheets compiled by Ordnance Survey field staff in the course of the 1:2500 map revision of various counties, mostly dating from 1931 – early 1960s. These unpublished manuscripts form part of the records of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service Archive, Dublin.
Timoney M. A. 2006 Fenagh Beg: No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 303, No. 1116. Bray, Wordwell
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