Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knockroe (boyle By., Killummod Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (boyle By., Killummod Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89735, -8.19256
- SMR number
- RO010-087001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope. A standing stone (dims. c. 0.6m x c. 0.3m; H c. 0.9m) was dislodged from a mound (RO010-087002-) in 1967 when bones were reputedly found (NMI file). There is no visible surface evidence of the standing stone or mound in a pasture field. Rath (RO010-088----) is c. 60m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.