What is recorded here

Standing stone in Tawnymucklagh is a standing stone in Tawnymucklagh, County Sligo, Ireland. The upright measures 1.32m high, 1.55m wide and about 0.5m deep, with a long axis running north-northwest to south-southeast and a tapering blunt top about 0.5m by 0.25m. It stands in pasture within a natural hollow, about 30m west of a prominent east-side rise that carries a hut site.

In pasture, in a natural hollow bordered on the E side by a prominent rise on top of which is a hut site (SL046-051001-), c. 30m to E. An upright roughly triangular stone (H 1.32m; 1.55m x c. 0.5m; long axis NNW-SSE) with a tapering blunt top (c. 0.5m x c. 0.25m). 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

Probably dates to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, given its form and context near a hut site. It may have had a ritual or territorial function, or marked a significant landscape feature; no specific folklore is recorded.

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