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Standing stone

Toberrory, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Toberrory, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Toberrory
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Misgaun Meva
Latest-edition OS map
Misgaun Meva
Coordinates
53.80350, -8.30366
SMR number
RO022-057008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the Rathcroghan plateau, c. 100m N of Rathcroghan mound (RO022-057010-). A sandstone pillar (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; L 2.6m) now lying prone in a crater (dims 6m E-W; 4m N-S; D 0.3m). (Knox 1914a, 9; Herity 1983, 130, Toberrory 13; Waddell 1983, 27, no. 3)

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. 23/1934) and is now a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294.

References

Herity, M. 1983 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 1. Introduction, the monuments and topography. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 121-42.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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