Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Drumoghty More, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumoghty More
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.97101, -7.88054
- SMR number
- LE028-065003-
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 in mixed woodland at the bottom of an E-facing slope, and just beside Tober Patrick holy well (LE028-065001-). It is described in gothic lettering on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a ‘Standing Stone’. It is not a prehistoric antiquity but a small stone (Wth 0.38m; H. 0.6m; T 0.07m) set in the ground and bears an inscription which is now illegible apart from the date ‘1775’. The inscription was recorded in the 1830s (OSNB No. 84, 14) as ‘Pray for Mark Meuly by whom this cross was erected in honour of St. Patrick, 1775.’ It is recorded in the 1930s Schools’ Manuscripts as: ‘IHS Pray for the soul of Mark Meale by whom this stone was erected in honour to Saint Patrick 1775.’ For the Schools Manuscripts see this web-page accessed on 12/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658426/4654168
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 April, 2017
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.