Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Coolnaha South,togher (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnaha South,togher (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- MA093-027002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to a fragment of carved stone found in the 1900 in a crannog (MA093-027001-) in the centre of Lough Caheer.
Knox (1908; 280-1) relates that stone was found by a local man at a depth of c. 1.2m within the stony foundation core of the crannog. The man removed the stone and built it into the wall of an outhouse at his home in Coolnaha townland. Knox, who did not see the stone and based his description on a second hand account and a sketch, records that it ‘appears to be the upper part of a Gothic window, ogival in type', which measured 'about 1½ feet [0.45m] by 1¼ feet [0.38m] by 1 foot [0.3m].' The current location of the stone is unknown.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 June 2022
References
Knox. H.T. 1908 Miscellanea. Carved stone found in crannog. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38, 280-1