Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballydawley, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydawley
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghaneaspig
- Coordinates
- 54.20018, -8.45349
- SMR number
- SL020-171004-
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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
Inside the SW edge of a graveyard (SL020-171002-). An upright rectangular limestone pillar (H 0.9m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.26m; long axis NNW-SSE). Small moss-covered stones are piled around its base. O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 247) recorded that the stone, popularly known as 'Clogh an Easpuig' [the Bishop's stone], marks the resting place of a bishop and, according to local tradition, the part of it which is sunken in the ground is ogham-inscribed. A small roughly oval stone (L 0.3m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.7m) lies at the base of the E face of the pillar. It has a flat base and a slightly rounded upper surface which contains five shallow circular holes with rounded bottoms (diam. 0.02m; D 0.03-0.05m) which, according to local tradition, were used to hold candles.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.