Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Mullystaghan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullystaghan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83440, -6.87130
- SMR number
- ME005-036001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope and within the large enclosure (ME005-036----), c. 10m from the field bank and towland boundary with Tullypole at S. It is marked on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Stone’. This is an upright pillar stone (dims 0.17m x 0.08m; H 0.5m) which has a simple latin cross carved on one face extending the width of the stone and to within 5cm of its top edge (Hicks 1974, 157).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 September 2018
References
Hicks, R. 1974 Two cross-inscribed stones. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 104, 157-58.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.