Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.72517, -6.38174
- SMR number
- LH024-010002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Marked 'St. Patrick's Stone' on the 1835 and 1938 'OS 6-inch' maps. A large natural boulder with three circular depressions, which, according to tradition are the prints of St. Patrick's knees and staff (Davies 1944, 296; IFC Schools' Mss 679, 181).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 28 August 2012
References
Davies, O. 1944 Old Churches in County Louth (Continued). County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 277-296.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.