Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pillar stone
Killeen (ardagh By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ardagh By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caldragh Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.64008, -7.61762
- SMR number
- LF020-033002-
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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
Within the SE half of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF020-033----). Described by Crawford (1926, 124-5) as a tall pillar stone 'spike-like' in appearance, located 'on the top and rather to the south' of the children's burial ground (LF020-033001-). It was set into a rectangular socket within a circular flat base stone (diam. c. 0.9m; T 0.25m) that was broken into two pieces. These were drawn by du Noyer (1864, vol. VI (20)). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the socket stone but no visible surface trace of it or the pillar stone survives.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.