What is recorded here

Ritual site is a ritual site (holy or saint's stone) in Toomour, County Sligo, Ireland. The top of a leacht cuimhne within the southwest quadrant of Toomour graveyard carries eleven water-rolled stones, each no more than 0.25m across, arranged in a row along the eastern facade. Wood-Martin recorded seventeen stones in 1892 and reported the local name dictet stones. A separate sandstone block on the same structure measures 0.3m by 0.19m, is 0.18m thick and has a 0.1m circular perforation with an hour-glass cross section near one edge.

On top of a leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-) within the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). Arranged in a row along the top of the E facade of the leacht cuimhne are eleven water-rolled stones (max. dim. 0.25m). Wood-Martin (1892, 366) noted seventeen of these stones and recorded that they were known locally as the 'dicket stones'. Also on top of the leacht is a sandstone block (0.3m x 0.19m; T 0.18m) with a small circular perforation (diam. 0.1m) close to one edge. The perforation has an hour-glass cross section through the thickness of the stone. 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

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