Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Billa, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Billa
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Fechins Bed
- Coordinates
- 54.17567, -8.55542
- SMR number
- SL026-011002-
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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
Embedded in a low terrace abutting the W end of the N side of the platform known as St Fechin's church (SL026-011001-). A prostrate limestone slab (min. dims. 2m E-W; 1.2m N-S) is largely covered by sod. Roughly in the centre of its flat upper surface is an elongated solution fissure (c. 1m N-S; 0.25m E-W; D 0.35m). According to local tradition, the stone could cure backache. The patient had to lie flat with the spine aligned along the central fissure. St Fechin's holy well (SL026-010----) is c. 200m to N and another saint's stone, St Fechin's Stone (SL026-012002-), is c. 400m to NE.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.