Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone (present location)
Corry (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corry (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68139, -8.11866
- SMR number
- RO036-065----
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 a level low-lying landscape and in the back garden of a house. A boulder (dims c. 0.5m x. c. 0.5m) which was recovered from a garden c. 50m S of rath (RO036-023----) c. 1996 bears the date in relief 'July 26 1689', but its significance is not known. (Siggins 1998a)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Siggins, A. 1998a The Corry, Kilrooskey boulder. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 7, 54.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.