Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballygastell, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygastell
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03418, -9.25061
- SMR number
- CL008-055002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the SW part of a children's burial ground (CL008-055001-). A possible standing stone (H 2.48m; Wth 0.23m; T 0.15m) of finely cut limestone, rectangular in section and with a flat top. Its stands prominently within the burial ground where it leans slightly to the N and has been smoothed by cattle rubbing against it.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-055002-_01.jpg View from E
CL008-055002-_02.jpg View from SSE
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.