Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortakeeran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.17339, -8.65504
- SMR number
- SL025-167----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, in a thicket of hawthorn and overgrowth, located on the S-facing foothills of the Ox Mountains, a few meters W of a S-flowing stream. The low, partly sod-covered ruins of a vernacular house are located c. 10m to N. Upright stone (1.42m; H 1.05m; T 0.3m at base, 0.20m at top), embedded in the ground, with long axis NW–SE. It is roughly triangular in shape, with the narrow sides inclining inwards towards a gently pointed apex. The broad NE side of the stone is almost entirely covered in moss, and an ash tree grows against this side. According to local tradition, this stone is regarded as marking a special location, possibly the site of a burial.
Attached image:
SL025-167----_01.JPG viewed from S
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.