Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Drumsheen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsheen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 54.11391, -9.00471
- SMR number
- MA031-063----
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
In average pasture, on the narrow top of a N–S ridge, with extensive views in all directions of the surrounding sharply undulating terrain of mixed pasture and bog. There is a stream c. 100m to E, beyond which there are large expanses of bog, with the Ox Mountains defining the far horizon.
Not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map, but shown as ‘Standing stone’ on the 1922 edition. Upright slab (H 1.5m; Wth 2m; T 0.35m), long axis NNE-SSW, is broader than it is tall. The stone is thickest at mid height, tapering from there towards a narrow top, and also narrowing towards the base. It leans slightly to E. There is a mound (MA031-063001-) located 1.4m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.