Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Kilmacowen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacowen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23271, -8.51864
- SMR number
- SL020-054003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a rise, c. 15m to SW of a holy well (SL020-054004-), and c. 25m N of a graveyard (SL020-054002-). Irregular-shaped erratic boulder (L 1.7m NE–SW; Wth 1m; H 0.7m) with two deep natural indentations on its N edge and a small, shallow depression (diam. c. 0.2m) on the top surface. According to tradition, the stone bears ‘the impression of St. Patrick’s knee’ and acquired a reddish hue from the Saint's blood. (OS Letters 1836, 64 (22-3)).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload; 24 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.