Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Tavanskeagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tavanskeagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16714, -6.66510
- SMR number
- MO020-029----
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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 dense forestry towards the top of a S-facing slope on Mullyash Mountain. The stone is broken into two pieces (piece 1: L c. 2.2m; Wth 2.2m; T at N end 0.6m; piece 2: L c. 0.65m; Wth 0.85m; T 0.6m), and is now recumbent with a flat face of the stone visible. The stone is tapered at both ends and modern graffiti are on the upper face. The stone had a role in the Lughnasa celebrations centred on the passage tomb (MO015-007----), which is on the summit of the ridge c. 850m to the NNW (MacNeill 1962, 161-3). A long stone in Mullyash Plantation 'that had the footprint of a giant marked on it’ was noted in folk tradition (IFC Schools MSS: (942) 158; (943) 274), for which see this web-page accessed on 11/06/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes Such a mark is not visible on the upper surfaces now. The folk tradition also recorded that Fionn MacCumhaill threw it the length of a field (ibid. 943, 274).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 22 June 2017
References
MacNeill, M. 1962 The festival of Lughnasa. London. Oxford University Press.
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.