Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Derrydarragh Or Oakfield, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrydarragh Or Oakfield
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holed Stone
- Coordinates
- 54.26321, -8.51440
- SMR number
- SL014-105----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In damp, pasture, in the SW corner of a field, at the junction of two field drains, and close to the junction of four townlands. Indicated on the 1940 OS 6-inch map as ‘Holed Stone’. Upright slab (max. H 2.15m; Wth 2.65m; T 0.2m), with long axis E-W. The narrow W side of the stone is vertical, grading into the gently arching top, but the E side is broken by a marked step or indentation. There is a perforation (0.86m E-W), off-centre to the E, through the broad face of the stone. According to local tradition, a sick person who passed through the perforation would be cured.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.