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Standing stone

Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Gortakeeran, 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
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----

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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 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

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

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