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Standing stone

Knockmullin, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Knockmullin, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockmullin
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Standing Stone
Coordinates
54.02348, -7.82871
SMR number
LE025-097----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a slight fold in undulating landscape and built into an E-W field wall. This is an upright conglomerate slab (dims 0.6m x 0.3m; H 1.8m) oriented NE-SW. Archaeological monitoring (01E0160) of a sewage line c. 70m to the N produced no related material (Read 2003)

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 revised upload: 14 February 2017

References

Read C. 2003 Commons, Fenagh. Monitoring. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 226, No. 733. Bray, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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