Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballycroneen West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycroneen West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.81060, -8.11690
- SMR number
- CO100-055----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the summit of hill. This prostrate stone (0.77m x 0.15m; L 2.85m) is roughly subrectangular in plan and section. It is presently lying on the ground close to a field fence with its long axis orientated E-W. A trigonometrical point is in the immeditate vicinity. Shown on Grand Jury map of 1810 as "Ballycroneen Stone". Power (1940, 23) describes this stone as a 'beautifully slender specimen, 11ft[3.35m] x 2ft 6in[0.76m] x 1ft[0.3m]' standing on 'a small rounded hill' known locally as "an liagán".
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.