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Standing stone

Liskilleen, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Liskilleen, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Liskilleen
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Standing Stone
Coordinates
53.66541, -9.20645
SMR number
MA110-045----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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, on top of an E-W running ridge, overlooking Lough Carra to the W. Roughly rectangular in plan (max. dims. H 3.2m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.3m), with main axis orientated NW-SE. It stands on top of a low mound of earth and stone (L 6m E-W; Wth 3m N-S).

The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 57.

Date of upload: 30 October 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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