Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Carrownrush (tireragh By., Easky West Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownrush (tireragh By., Easky West Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28344, -9.01971
- SMR number
- SL011-028----
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
Situated on a low but prominent rise on a NNE-facing slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Low, irregularly-shaped granite block (present max. exposed H 1.24m; dims. 0.82m x 0.28m), aligned E-W, and tilting appreciably to the W side. According to the landowner, the stone is known in the locality as 'The Priest's Stone' and was used as an assembly point during the Penal Times.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.