Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Toomour, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toomour
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03955, -8.43222
- SMR number
- SL040-140008-
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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 Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-), immediately to the W of a leacht cuimhne (SL040-14003-), is a large flat slab (min. dims. 1.1m x 1.1m) embedded in the ground. On its exposed surface are three, and possibly a fourth, shallow circular depressions (diam.: 0.14m; 0.16m; 0.19m; 0.3m), said to be the imprints of 'the knees of the saint of the place [probably St Luidhigh] in his constant prayers at the Altar' (O'Rorke [1889] vol. 2, 213). Also incised on this stone, close to the S edge, are three simple equal-armed crosses (dims: 0.16 x 0.15m; 0.16m x 0.14m; 0.13m x 0.14m), all 2-3cm wide, though a sketch of the stone in O'Rorke (ibid., 212) shows six crosses.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.