Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Annaghkilly, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghkilly
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Stone (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.17641, -7.17902
- SMR number
- MO012-065----
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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
Located at the crest of the S-facing slope of a hill that is known as Fall Crom. The hill is thought to have been an inauguration site of a branch of Ó Mórdha of Laois (Moore) who migrated here during the seventeenth century (Moore 2014). The stone is represented only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as ‘Ancient Stone (Site of)’. It was described in 1941 (SMR file) as ‘two upright stones 3 feet high (c. 0.9m) remain in the hedge. Two or three others were removed some time ago….. The stones apparently formed a small ring.’ No stones are present now, although a lot of field stones are in the field bank just to the N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 17 January 2018
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Moore, E. 2014 Annaghkilly and Fall Crum, Co. Monaghan, Clogher Record, vol. 21, No. 3, 245-8.
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.