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Standing stone

Ballycotteen South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Ballycotteen South, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballycotteen South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.96278, -9.39152
SMR number
CL015-126----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In coarse pasture in an area with some rock outcrop, c. 95m W of a stream. A standing stone (H 1.71m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.26m) placed centrally on a low, natural, round-topped, earth and stone mound (diam. 25m). The stone has flat sides and a rounded top and it is aligned NE-SW. 
 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 29 October 2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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