Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Drummin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drummin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Inscribed Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.83461, -8.36028
- SMR number
- RO015-052----
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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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as 'Inscribed Stone'. It is situated on the N-facing slope of a knoll. Described as a headstone with an illegible inscription which may have been in French (OS Name Books). It is not visible in an area of grass-covered quarries, and its precise location is not known. Archaeological testing (21E0180) by M. Fitzpatrick of an extensive area of about 4 ha (c. 10 acres) around this feature produced no archaeological material and no evidence of this stone, which he suggests might be the original location of any of the ogham stones now at the rath (RO015-161002-) c. 600m to the W (excavations.ie 2021: 056). (Fitzpatrick 2021, 22)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 4 August 2021
References
OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.
FitzPatrick, M. 2021 Report on Archaeological Testing in the Townlands of Drummin, Gortnagoyne and Peak, County Roscommon. Licence: 21E0180. Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.