Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Carrowloughan East, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowloughan East
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernasool
- Coordinates
- 54.27171, -8.65967
- SMR number
- SL013-004----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a rocky coastline, NW of the entrance to Ballysadare Bay. Naturally-occurring rock basin which Wood-Martin (1882, 355-6) recorded 'had formerly been held in estimation as holy'.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.