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Standing stone

Dranagh, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Dranagh, County Carlow, 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
Dranagh
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49145, -6.86167
SMR number
CW026-095----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a steep SW facing slope, two large flat slabs (S stone: H 1.8m, L 1.8m, T 0.2m; N stone: H. 2m, Wth 2m, T 0.6m) aligned NW-SE. A smaller upright slab (H c. 1m) blocks the gap between the two slabs at one end and forms a triangular chamber at the other end. Animal bones were noted in the space between the stones in 2010. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 96) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: SS03).

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 14 November 2013

References

Ó Murchú, S. 2011 Life and Death on Dranagh Mountain; An Archaeological Investigation of an Upland Landscape in County Carlow. Unpublished MA thesis, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.

Ó Murchú, S. 2013 Archaeology among the blackthorns. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 2012, Vol. XXI, 35-55, Wordwell, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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