Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Creevy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.79806, -7.46011
- SMR number
- LF011-010----
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
On a NNW-facing slope in pasture. Indicated on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. This irregularly shaped, limestone block (H c. 2m; Wth 1.3m; T 0.3m) is aligned NNE-SSW. A possible pond- barrow (LF011-008----) lies c. 55m to the NE and a stone circle (LF011-007----) is c. 760m to the WNW. (Fredengren et al. 2010, 104, Pl. 3.12)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 1 March 2012
References
Fredengren, C., Kilfeather, A., and Stuijts, I. 2010 Lough Kinale: studies of an Irish lake. Lake settlement project. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 8. Wordwell Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.