Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Curryaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89485, -8.87522
- SMR number
- MA072-128----
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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 an expanse of rough, heather-covered bog, strewn with boulders and broken by rock-outcropping, located at the top of broad, relatively flat-topped knoll or rise, with extensive views in all directions. Three lakes, Lough Nambrackkeagh, Middle Lough and Crocknacloy Lough are located within a few hundred meters to NW, W and S respectively. The far horizon is defined at NW by the Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg Range and at NE by the Ox Mountains.
This stone pair consists of a large upright earth-fast boulder (L 1.3m NNE−SSW; Wth 0.8m; H 1.3m) with a sloping top which rises gently from NNE to SSW, and a prostrate stone (L 2.25m E−W; Wth c. 1.3m; T 0.3m) which is located 1.2m to N, with its long axis perpendicular to that of the upright stone. The S side of the prostrate stone is partly embedded in the ground; the higher N side appears to rest on a few small horizontal stones, creating a small space (H 0.35m) beneath the stone.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.