Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Inchmore Island, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchmore Island
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Columbkilles Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.82213, -7.56667
- SMR number
- LF006-033----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On Inchmore Island in Lough Gowna and associated with the monastery, 'Teampull Choluim Cille' (see LF006-032002-), founded by St Colmcille (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 179). This large flagstone is broken into two pieces. There are apparently natural indentations on its upper face that are believed to be impressions of St Colmcille's knees, and the fingers and thumb of one hand. A graveyard (LF006-032001-) lies c. 100m to the NW. (O'Donovan 2002, 29)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.