Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Kildun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98844, -9.83883
- SMR number
- MA044-009003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a burial ground (MA044-009001-). The burial ground survives as a low mound (14.5m ENE-WSW; 10.2m NNW-SSE). The standing stone is located at the SW edge of the mound. It is a National Monument in State ownership (No. 423). It consists of an upright, subrectangular-shaped stone (H 1.46m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.23m), tapering to a point at top, and aligned NNE-SSW. It tilts slightly to WNW. Moran (1942, 149) recorded that the W face is divided into a number of 'diamond shaped figures by intersecting lines'. These 'lines' are natural faults in the stone. There is a cross-inscribed pillar (MA044-009002-) located a few meters to NE, at the centre of the burial ground.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 June 2018
References
Moran, P. 1942 Miscellanea: Inscribed cross-slabs in the parish of Ballycroy, Co. Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 12, 149-151
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.