Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Meenamaddo, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenamaddo
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.15664, -8.86456
- SMR number
- SL024-005----
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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
In rough upland pasture, in the Ox Mountains, located on a small ridge or knoll, flanked immediately to N and S by two small, boggy valleys. The knoll is cloaked in blanket bog, with ground cover of moorland grasses, sedges, rushes and mosses, broken by areas of gneiss outcropping. To E ground falls away to the shore of Easkey Lough, overshadowed on its E side by the high main ridge of the Ox Mountains; to W there is a drop to a broad, flat expanse of blanket bog which stretches far to W and NW. The standing stone consists of an upright, narrow flat-topped pillar of schist. It has naturally rounded edges, giving it a roughly oval cross-section (0.2m E–W; 0.12-0.15m N–S). It leans slightly to N so that its vertical height is 0.6m, and the leaning or oblique dimension is 0.75m. There is at least a further 0.5m of the stone embedded in the peat.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Burial1 mi
- Settlement cluster2 mi
- Crannog3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.