Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Carrownagoul, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownagoul
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03504, -8.96061
- SMR number
- CL010-207----
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
On a slight N-facing slope in pasture with land to the NW and SW also sloping slightly, offering wide views from W to N. A limestone standing stone (H 1.4m; Wth 0.43-5m; T 0.18-28m), rectangular in cross-section throughout, with its long axis orientated NE-SW. The SW edge is rough and jagged, perhaps from when the stone was broken off a larger slab. By contrast, the corners on the NE side are even and regular. The top is uneven and the edges are polished from animals rubbing against it. It may have been erected as a scratching stone. It is set in a shallow circular depression (diam. c. 2m; D 0.1m). A post-medieval farmhouse, Carrownagoul House (drawn on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map), is located 55m to the W (Brew 1998, 105-7). The standing stone is in a prominent position in clear view from the house.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-207----_01.jpg View from ESE
CL010-207----_02.jpg View from NW
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.