Stone sculpture (present location) in Carrowntarriff

Now sitting in the front garden of a house, and recorded by Gary Dempsey. A cylindrical stone (max. diam. 0.5m; H 0.29m) has a basin on top (diam. c. 0.3m), but the sides have been decorated with a number of horizontal mouldings (diam. of base c. 0.4m). The stone was recovered from a ditch in Ardsallagh Beg, just outside Roscommon town c. 2000. It may have been made in the style of the capitals of Roscommon Abbey (ME039-055001-), c. 700m to the WNW, although at twice the scale, and it could have been created by the inmates of the workhouse, just to the W of its findspot. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 February, 2015

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this stone sculpture may have had a ritual or domestic function, with the basin possibly used for water collection or symbolic purposes. The horizontal markings could indicate an early form of recording or decorative tradition, though their specific meaning remains unclear.