Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Oghambaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oghambaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05305, -8.71272
- SMR number
- SL038-037001-
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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 pasture, c. 70m NW of a rath (SL038-037----). According to local information, an upright pillar stone stood here within living memory. There are now no visible remains of this stone. Local information also relates that this was an ogham stone from which the townland name was derived though Joyce ([1913], vol. 3, 527) translates Ogham in a place-name context as ' Eo-cham, crooked yew-tree'.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.