Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Clooncorick, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncorick
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kings Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kings Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.98815, -7.64576
- SMR number
- LE030-030----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the outer edge of a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Two stone uprights, roughly aligned N-S, are placed 0.35m apart. The N stone (dims 0.4m x 0.35m; H 1.5m) is oriented NE-SW and the S stone (dims 0.6m x 0.45m; H 1.35m) is oriented NNE-SSW. It was reputed to be the burial place of a king who died in combat with another at the hill called Mullach an Dá Rí – the hill of the two kings as recorded by John O’Donovan in the 1830s (Herity 2012, 398; Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 195).
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 14 October 2019
References
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2012 Ordnance Survey Letters: Londonderry, Fermanagh, Armagh-Monaghan, Louth, Cavan-Leitrim. Dublin, Fourmasters Press
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.