Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Moyne (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyne (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49502, -9.12655
- SMR number
- MA123-060006-
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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 to W of a medieval church (MA123-060002-) on the NW limits of a graveyard (MA123-060003-) in the centre of an early medieval ecclesiastical enclosure (MA123-060001-). This pair of standing stones consists of two upright, irregular-shaped slabs of limestones, set 1.95m apart. The northern stone is 1.69m high and 0.2-0.4m thick; the southern stone is 1.78m high and 0.14-0.45m thick. Their function remains unknown. One possibility is that they mark an old entrance into the graveyard. According to local tradition, coffins were carried between the stones en route to burial. (Manning 1987, 45)
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 August 2017
References
Manning, C. 1987 Excavation at Moyne Graveyard, Shrule, Co. Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 87C, no. 3, 37-70.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.