Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Green Island, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Green Island
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52412, -9.25898
- SMR number
- MA120B003----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 Green Island in the NE of Lough Corrib. The stone is located toward the NW end of the island, in a small clearing which is surrounded by willow and hawthorn trees, and partly engulfed in brambles and ferns. Granitic stone slab (H 1.1m; L 1m; max T c. 0.3m), with the long axis aligned roughly E–W, set upright in the ground but leaning gently to S. The broad N face has a relatively smooth surface; the S face is slightly convex, with a rougher surface. The stone is thickest (0.3m) at its W end, is somewhat thinner in the middle (T 0.23m) and narrows sharply at its E end. The N face is pockmarked with tiny indentations or holes -these are natural features of the stone.
Attached images:
MA120B003----_01: viewed from N
MA120B003----_02: viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 June 2015
Nearby in the register
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.