Knockacorha

Also known as:
Cloghcom
Nearest town:
Carrick-on-Shannon (5km ENE)
OS reference:
M892984
OS sheet:
33
Latitude:
53° 56' 5.21 N
Longitude:
8° 9' 52.04 W
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Image of Knockacorha (Standing Stone / Menhir) by ryaner

A Roscommon standing (for how much longer?) stone

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Nov 13, 2006

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Knockacorha

ryaner
ryaner Nov 13, 2006

Slightly closer to the road than is marked on the OS map, you can see this one as you drive by (12/11/06). It’s a delightfully odd, 2 metre tall, deeply eroded, leaning phallus. How it hasn’t collapsed is anyone’s guess. The erosion on the side away from the road was a nice surprise.

Folklore

Knockacorha
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Dec 10, 2006

Killuken, county Roscommon.
In a field on the roadside from Carrick to Croghan, on the left hand, is a long stone set up obliquely. The common people call this Cloghcom, i.e., the crooked stone, and say that it was thrown there from the top of Skimore, in the county of Leitrim (a distance of about seven miles), by the Giant Fin mac-Coole, the print of whose five fingers they say is to be seen in it.

Taken from ‘A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland, drawn from the communications of the clergy, by William Shaw Mason. 1814-1819.
Quoted on p333 of
Irish Folk-Lore. [Continued]
William Shaw Mason
The Folk-Lore Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4. (1887), pp. 331-335.

Kindly identified by Ryaner – many thanks.

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ryaner
Dec 2006

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