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Standing stone

Meenamaddo, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Meenamaddo, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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