Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Grogagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grogagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.38197, -8.50066
- SMR number
- SL005-181----
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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
In pasture, located on a small rounded peak on a narrow NW−SE ridge. There are extensive views encompassing a broad sweep of the surrounding undulating grassland, Donegal Bay and Slieve League to NW, and the corrugated slope of Ben Bulben which dominates landscape to SE. The deep gully of the Grange River cuts through a small valley c. 150m to S. A rectangular-shaped stone slab (L 0.55m NNW−SSE; T 0.16m at base; 0.2m at top; H 1m) set upright in the ground, with long axis aligned roughly N-S. The cross-section is rectangular. The stone expands in thickness at top, and the top of the stone slopes up slightly to S. A natural vertical crack (L 0.3m), which extends through the full thickness of the stone, extends down for c. 0.3m from the top of the stone midway along the broad sides. A second standing stone (SL005-181----), which shares the same alignment, is within sight on another small peak 31m to NW on the same ridge.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 August 2016
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.