Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Toberrory, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberrory
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Milleen Meva
- Latest-edition OS map
- Milleen Meva
- Coordinates
- 53.80345, -8.30517
- SMR number
- RO022-057006-
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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 the Rathcroghan plateau, c. 100m NW of Rathcroghan mound (RO022-057010-). Described in gothic lettering as Milleen Meva on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map. This is a conglomerate limestone (max. dims 1.6m x 0.9-1.35m; T 0.55-0.7m), now prone. Mound barrow (RO022-057007-) is 40m to the SSE. (Knox 1914a, 9; Waddell 1983, 27, no. 2)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 22/1934), and is now a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294.
References
Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.
Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.