Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.