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Stone row

Lettereeneen, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone row, Lettereeneen, 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
Lettereeneen
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.62320, -9.43473
SMR number
MA116A005001-

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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 rough pasture, located on a natural rise or terrace on the lower S-facing slopes of the Partry Mountains. The location overlooks the western shores of Lough Mask, with the skyline at S−SW dominated by the dramatic ridges of Maumtrasna Mountain. This stone row consists of three close-set, earth-fast upright stones in a NE−SW row, 4m in total length. The central stone, a gneiss boulder, is noticeably larger and taller than the two rounded granite stones which flank it. The long axis of each stone mirrors that of the row as a whole.
SW stone (L 0.6m NE−SW; T 0.4m; H 0.65m): a rounded granite boulder, roughly oval or lozenge-shaped in cross-section, narrowing at top to a rough peak.
Middle stone (L 1.45m NE−SW; T 0.7m; H 1.3m): a gneiss boulder, seamed with natural cracks, relatively straight-sided, with a flattish surface on top, sloping slightly to N; roughly lozenge-shaped cross-section. It is 0.45m to NE of the SW stone.
NE stone (L 1m NE−SW; T 0.7m; H 0.75m): a rounded granite boulder, roughly oval or lozenge-shaped in cross-section. It is 0.9m NE of the middle stone.
A random scatter of small stones around the base of the row appears to be have accumulated here relatively recently.
A ringbarrow (MA116A005002-) is located 2m to E of the stone row. Another stone row (MA116A006001-) and a cairn (MA116A006002-) are located 300m to WSW.

Images:
MA116A005001-_01.JPG viewed from E
MA116A005001-_02.JPG viewed from S
MA116A005001-_03.JPG viewed from SE, with ranging rod marking ringbarrow (MA116A005002-) in foreground

Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 27 September 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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