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Standing stone

Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Carns, 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
Carns
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloghfadnacarn
Latest-edition OS map
Cloghfadnacarn
Coordinates
53.75537, -8.25999
SMR number
RO028-068003-

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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

At the crest of a N-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge, c. 250m N of the broad WNW-ESE ridge of Carnfree, and a little S of the centre of ring-barrow (RO028-068001-). This stone is known as Cloghfadnacarn - the long stone of the cairn. Limestone upright with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.5m x 0.4m) which expands over the grass-line and is aligned E-W. It has a pointed top (H 3.2m). (Wilde 1870-1, 250-1; Knox 1914b, 351)

See the attached image taken from the NE with Carn Lamha (RO028-070----) visible on the horizon.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 11 August 2021

References

Knox, H.T. 1914b Dumha Brosna. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 348-57.

Wilde, Sir W.W. 1870-78 Memoir of Gabriel Beranger, and his labours in the cause of Irish art, literature, and antiquities from 1760 to 1780, with illustrations. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol. 11, 33-64, 121-52, 236-60, vol. 12, 445-85, Vol. 14, 111-56.

Nearby in the register

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

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