Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Ballyboy (Lune By., Rathmore Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboy (Lune By., Rathmore Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Laurences Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Laurences Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.63603, -6.89212
- SMR number
- ME024-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · 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
Situated on a fairly level landscape. This is a glacial erratic with a natural hole at its base on the S side, which is reputed to have been made by St. Laurence O’Toole’s hands. It had originally been at Rathmore castle (ME024-018001-) but it was moved to a corner of a field near the road (R164) from Athboy to Kells. (O’Reilly 1955, 15)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 April 2019
O’Reilly, M. 1955 Rathmore. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 1, No. 1, 14-17.
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.