Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Cloghchurnel, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghchurnel
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80168, -7.47198
- SMR number
- LF011-061----
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 the highest point of a prominent drumlin hill affording excellent views in all directions. This irregularly shaped block tapers to a point (H 1.51m; Wth 1.2m; T 0.43m) and is aligned N-S. A stone circle (LF011-007----) lies c. 120m to the SE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 1 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.