Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Standing Stone
Dungiven, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Standing Stone
- Date of construction
- Pre 1600
- Address
- Standing Stone, Priory Lane, Dungiven, Co Londonderry, BT47 4PF
- Townland
- Dungiven
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.91871, -6.91786
- Date of survey
- 20 May 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/06/012
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A vertical piece of schist of rectangular cross section and approximately 1800mm high-sited on top of a wide grassy mound. The stone is 1200mm wide and 300 in depth. The mound was described as 9 metres in diameter.
Historical information
A standing stone which may be of pre historic origin. However in Bunn’s booklet on “Dungiven Days” it states that “Tradition states erected to record ecclesiastical assembly held there in 590 AD at which St Columbcille was present”.
The O.S. Memoirs refers to “an earther mound or tumulus with a stale or pillar-stone, situated on the summit of a hill near the old church of Dungiven and usually called Leac Phadraig or “St Patrick’s Stone”.
A monument not in State Care No Ldy 25.4.
References
Primary Sources
O.S. Memoirs of Ireland Parishes of Co Londonderry IV 1824, 1833-5 p. 54
Secondary Sources
Bunn Dungiven Days 1978 p.46
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A significant feature in the near landscape which tradition states is associated with St Columcille though it maybe of much earlier date.
Nearby in the register
- St Patrick’s R.C. ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Ballaun/FontArchaeological Siteunder 1 mi
- Dungiven High SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- 844 Glenshane RoadStoreunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.