Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballinrumpa, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrumpa
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloighard or Loighta
- Coordinates
- 53.89313, -8.68865
- SMR number
- MA073-040----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
In pasture, located immediately adjacent to a field wall, overlooked by rising ground immediately to NW and by a ridge at N–NE.
This standing stone is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is indicted on the 1919 edition where it is named ‘Cloighard or Loighta’.
Upright straight-sided stone block (H 1.65m; Wth 0.74m; T 0.47m), rectangular in cross-section, with the long axis oriented roughly NE–SW. Slight shoulder-like indentations on the NW face narrow the width of the upper portion (H 0.5m; Wth 0.49m) of the stone. The top of the stone has a roughly pyramidal profile.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.