Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Foyoges, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foyoges
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08823, -8.23373
- SMR number
- SL035-067005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the field between Foyoges graveyard (SL035-067002-) and the road to E and c. 30m NE of the graveyard. A large tree is surrounded by a stone bench on top of which are two rounded stones and a portion of a third, probably praying stones; a coin found under one of the stones in 2003 indicates that these stones are still venerated (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). A bishop's grave (SL035-067004-) is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map at this location though there are no remains of any grave now evident.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.