Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture - aniconic
Castlestrange, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlestrange
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58692, -8.27189
- SMR number
- RO041-033----
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
Towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope, c. 200m from the NW-SE River Suck. A granite boulder (dims. c. 0.9m x c. 0.7m; H c. 0.6m) with curvilinear La Tene art incised on it is beside the avenue into a farm beside the ruined Castlestrange House. (Coffey 1903, 262-3; Armstrong, 1923, 30)
This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 320
See the attached images taken from the E and S
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Coffey, G. 1903 Some monuments of the La Tene period recently discovered in Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 24C, 257-66.
Armstrong, E.C.R. 1923 The La Tene period in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 53, 1-33.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.