Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knockalegan West, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockalegan West
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Coordinates
- 53.75218, -8.37803
- SMR number
- RO027-018----
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 the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Limestone upright (dims 0.7m WNW-ESE; 0.33m NNE-SSW; original H1.45m) which is leaning over severly to the NE. (Siggins 1986a, 25)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Siggins, A. 1986a Prehistoric standing stones. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 1, 25.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.