Misgaun Meva

On the Rathcroghan plateau, c. 100m N of Rathcroghan mound (RO022-057010-). A sandstone pillar (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; L 2.6m) now lying prone in a crater (dims 6m E-W; 4m N-S; D 0.3m). (Knox 1914a, 9; Herity 1983, 130, Toberrory 13; Waddell 1983, 27, no. 3) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 23/1934) and is now a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294.

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, Misgaun Meva, Toberrory may have functioned as a ritual or territorial marker within the wider Rathcroghan complex, an area associated with early Irish kingship and mythology. Local folklore may connect it to the legendary Queen Medb of Connacht.