Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Shrule, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shrule
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghvanaha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51899, -9.09053
- SMR number
- MA122A005002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the E edge of Shrule village, located at the site of Shrule abbey (MA122A005001-). The name 'Cloghvanaha' is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map adjacent to the site of the abbey; it is not shown on later map editions. The Ordnance Survey Name Books (1838) record it as follows: “The site of an old abbey -near the E corner of the latter is a large stone Cruckvahina or the Blessed stone.”
There is no visible trace of the stone.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.