Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Tyredagh Lower, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyredagh Lower
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1842)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.88679, -8.80336
- SMR number
- CL027-021----
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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 very gentle SW-facing slope, in improved pasture, with reasonable views of landscape SE-WNW. Depicted as an upright stone on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a small circle on the OS 25-inch map. Described by Westropp (1917, 11) as a pillar stone. This is a very tall and slender upright stone (H 2.9m; max. T 0.13m at base) with a roughly rectangular elevation to E and W (max. Wth 0.8m at base) which becomes slightly narrower towards the top of the stone, where there is a small rounded point. The E and W elevations have deep oval and irregular solution marks. The ground around the base of the stone forms a slight depression, where it is slightly worn by livestock. A standing stone (CL027-049----) is located c. 90m to SE.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL027-021----_01.jpg E-facing elevation.
CL027-021----_02.jpg S-facing elevation; dwelling house in background.
CL027-021----_03.jpg W-facing elevation.
CL027-021----_04.jpg N-facing elevation.
CL027-021----_05 From NW, general context.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 26 November 2018
References
Westropp, T. J. 1917 Notes on the primitive remains (forts and dolmens) in central County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 47, 1-20.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.