Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Boyhollagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boyhollagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03557, -9.06755
- SMR number
- MA049-160----
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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, broken by rocky outcrops, located on top of a small, low roughly oval natural rise, in the foothills of the NW-facing slopes of the Ox Mountains. Immediately to E–SE the ground rises to a low N–S ridge, broken by rock outcropping and strewn with boulders, and overshadowed by the steeper mountain slopes. Extensive views SW–NW are punctuated by distant views of the summit of Croagh Patrick to SW, and the summit of Nephin to WSW.
Irregular-shaped stone (H c. 1.35m; 0.8m NNE–SSW; 0.5m) set upright in the ground. To the E and SW the stone presents relatively flat, smooth faces but the W and NW faces are characterised by irregular indentations, giving the stone a multi-angled cross-section. The stone leans markedly to N.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 February 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.