Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Clonisboyle, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonisboyle
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.40868, -7.02685
- SMR number
- MO001-010----
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 in a low-lying area in the bend of a NW-SE stream or drain as it turns NE and c. 20m from the stream. This is a rock which according to local information is known as St. Patrick's stone. A natural mark on the stone is said to be the imprint of the saint's foot.
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.