Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Killahugh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killahugh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52705, -7.51997
- SMR number
- WM018-103----
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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
Situated on NE-facing slope of rising ground overlooking Rathconrath church (WM018-102002-) and graveyard (WM018-102004-) 150m to N. Rathconrath House formerly the Glebe House lies c. 220m to WSW. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map.
Present remains consist of a triangular-shaped (max. Wth 1.1m; max. T 0.8m) limestone slab (max. H 1.37m) set firmly into the ground with its long axis aligned NE-SW. It has a broad base and tapers irregularly to a broad point at the top. It leans at a slight angle to E. It has been used by livestock as a rubbing post and the area around its base has been eroded. A flat sub-rectangular-shaped recumbent stone lies on the ground at the base to W. This flat recumbent slab could have been part of the standing stone which at some time was split in two or may represent rock outcrop. There are small limestone outcrops to N and S of the monument. Old cultivation ridges running E-W are visible in the field. The low earthen bank of an old field boundary running NNE-SSW can be seen immediately W of the standing stone.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 08 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.