Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Cloonee (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonee (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66367, -9.23592
- SMR number
- MA110-091----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on level ground on the N margins of an expanse of coniferous forestry. Ground rises to S; this wooded slope is strewn with boulders and broken by rock outcropping. A large field of flat pasture/silage stretches to N.
A roughly rectangular block of limestone (H 1.8m; 0.7m NNE−SSW; 0.35-0.4m ESE-WNW), with a rectangular cross-section, set firmly upright in the ground. At a height of 1.2m above ground level, there is a sloping ‘shoulder’ above which the stone narrows to a width of c. 0.45m on the NNE−SSW axis. The stone has a naturally rough surface, which is noticeably more corrugated on the S and E sides. It tilts now gently to E. Ivy thickly overspreads all sides of the stone, especially dense on the top and slightly sparser towards the base. A small tree stands immediately to N, its trunk growing flush against the N face of the stone.
Attached images:
MA110-091----_01.JPG Viewed from W
MA110-091----_02.JPG Viewed from NW
MA110-091----_03.JPG Viewed from E
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.