Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Rakeevan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rakeevan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 54.15648, -7.07791
- SMR number
- MO017-029----
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
Located on the summit of a drumlin and just outside the perimeter of Rath (MO017-028----) at SSE. It has a roughly rectangular cross-section at the base (dims 0.6-0.75m NW-SE; 0.4m NE-SW) with a NW-SE ridge (L 0.55m) at top (H 1.15m).
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: 8 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.