Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Kilmovee, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmovee
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lauaghnabra
- Coordinates
- 53.89197, -8.69193
- SMR number
- MA073-041----
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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 on a rise. This stone is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is indicted on the 1919 edition where it is named ‘Lauaghnabra’. A recumbent boulder (c. 1.3m NNE-SSW; c. 1.25m; ESE-WNW; T 0.3-0.6m) resting on a slight plinth of sod. A smaller boulder is located 6m to SSW. Towards the N end of the field there is a partly sod-covered small cairn /heap of field stones (1.4m E−W; 1.2m N−S; H 0.3m).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.