Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pillar stone
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43139, -8.65708
- SMR number
- SL001-001017-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Recorded by Wakeman (1886, 277-78; 1893, 102-103) as standing on the Clocha Breaca leacht (SL001-001013-). Wakeman describes a ‘second stone which has been set upright in ‘Cloca-breaca’ … part of a pillar of rude construction and inconsiderable size. It is much weather worn; so much so that it seems difficult to determine whether it had been carved or otherwise.’
This stone was not found during the 1997-99 survey by O’Sullivan and Ó Carragáin; its current whereabouts are unknown.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.